A week of full Summer sun brings the mountain to life. Snakes and lizards basking on bedrock and firewood piles, leaving crumpled slips of skin set jewelled in sawdust. Myriad species of hunting and solitary wasp flitting between exposed timber beams, investigating stretches of open soil shared by ground dwelling bees, digging burrows, nesting in holes bored by over-Wintering beetles. Colourful hawker dragonflies streaking between kitchen garden beds laden with fruit. Great green bush crickets devouring climbing bean flowers.
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