Today is the first day of Spring. Our Garden is already excited by its arrival. The first of September also marks the beginning of Brisbane Festival with a multitude of performances, events and concerts in many parts of the City. I dragged the Beekeeper into the City’s Botanical Gardens in the early evening for Lightscape. The gardens welcomed many visitors as we made our way through the trail. A beautiful night, a Blue Supermoon, a lovely temperature, and musical scores to accompany the many changing parts of the Lightscape spectacle.

We walked through exploring the colours and music, rivers recreated with lights of shimmering waves, fireflies dancing on the plants, bamboos swaying in the lights, a fire garden, palm trees lit in their entirety, kaleidoscope paths and neon lights on fig tree roots.

At one point we could hear the call of the Bush Stone Curlews over the music and wondered if they might be protesting the invasion of their space. The lights are lit for a couple of hours in the evening and then the birds and other creatures take back the night skies and their homes.

Our favourites were the lotus flowers in the pond and the poppies.

From us both, a happy Spring to you all. A colourful Autumn for our Northern Hemisphere friends.