#12 A piece of nature observation

[kaberett]

We are getting to the time of year that contains my favourite weather: blue skies and streaming sunshine and crisp air that turns you into a dragon and numbs your face just a little. I've been gently envious of the people getting frost - that doesn't seem to be a thing London is doing, just yet - but nonetheless I get bare branches and autoexfoliating plane trees and bark and bite to the air and -- yes. Yes. When first the air smells like ice, and such.

Comments

[swaldman]

I agree on liking that weather... But it's a different time of year here. Here, December is grey skies and wind and rain and sometimes a little snow... The clear, cold freshness tends to come around March/April, I think.

[silveradept]

We had a little of that so far. The rains have chased it off quickly.

[davidgillon]

crisp air that turns you into a dragon

Oh, I love that phrasing! Just as much as I love that weather - though it's a narrow band between comfortably brisk and nithering!

[calissa]

<3

We are in the time of year where the sky is bleached pale and the hills are gold or brown. Reptiles are everywhere, basking in the heat--the humans get burned to a crisp if they try.

I went to the Australian National Botanic Gardens yesterday and will be posting the pictures soon. I made sure to stop by the Wollemi pines.