The flowers are opening up their petals to gather rays from the overhead sunlight.

A hardy plant grows in the sand of the Little Desert in Victoria.

Flowering gums in Victoria's Little Desert

A Praying Mantis is on the lookout for a meal.

A rather rusty nut and screw from my workshop are no longer of use.

A great spot to spend the night located somewhere in the Little Desert region of Victoria. It was pretty isolated and we had seen only one other vehicle that day.

Not much traffic on this sandy track running through the Little Desert in Victoria.

Late afternoon rays of the sun highlight one side of the leaves on an apple tree branch in my back yard.

Macro of cactus needles.

It is a harsh environment in Victoria's Little Desert

The road we travelled along through Victoria's Little Desert.

Beautiful flower on a cactus plant that I grew.

There is a real glow to this beautiful cactus flower growing in a hanging basket on my back balcony.

Whilst driving through Victoria's Little Desert we stopped occasionally to photograph the local vegetation.

The veins in this leaf really stand out.

A great view of the pink lake at Crosbie i Victoria's Little Desert region. It was a wonderful place to spend a couple of days exploring the area.

An old tree stump with a pink salt lake in the background where we were camped in Victoria's Little Desert region.

These dead trees still have their own innate beauty in this wetland landscape in central Victoria.

A bee forages for pollen on a clover flower in my back yard.

A panoramic sunset viewed from our campsite in Victoria's Little Desert.