One: The sky is the colour of the inside of an oyster shell, much paler than it appears in my photo, for reasons that I don’t understand. It isn’t fog, or mist, it’s dust. Dust which has been present for two days. It couldn’t be called a dust storm, more a dust drift. Australia’s topsoil is…
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SoS: September 1: Still frosty.
Today is considered to be the first day of Spring in Australia, although technically speaking, real Spring doesn’t begin until the equinox on 23rd September. It seems, however, that Winter hasn’t quite finished with us yet here, in the Central Tablelands of NSW. We’ve had some rain, a good amount for us, and a cold…
Rain Tumbled Down
Rain fell today. We had 27ml of steady rain, not the sudden over-in-a-minute kind, but the sort that sinks into the garden and refreshes. It was a proper Event. The hills behind our house were enshrouded with mist, as sombre as the grey sky, and the rain tumbled down for most of the day. In…
Six on Saturday, March 31st.
Welcome to another Six on Saturday. This is an exciting meme where gardeners can show what’s been happening in their patch during the last week. Any six things, on a Saturday. The Propagator is the host of SoS and as always you can go on over to his blog to see what everyone else is…
Rain
‘Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.’ Bob Marley In it came from the west, muttering and grumbling as I watched anxiously, hoping it wouldn’t do what it so often does: bypass us and go off to dump somewhere else. I’ve seen this happen so frequently this summer, as I’ve obsessively checked …