I like spring in Sydney. Typically, it’s warm and green. Winter’s cold is gone and the oppressive heat of summer hasn’t started. Rain comes, the garden’s green and the flowers come in waves.
Fortunately, this year the halcyon weather continued on through December. Whereas we'd normally expect he rain kept the garden green, and the temperature barely hit 30. The most pleasant summer I can recall in Sydney. The wisteria has grown truly bushy, filling the trellises and extending its tendrils all around the front garden, now stretching towards the back.
On the flipside, people were complaining about the rain, about the cool temperatures. Listening to them was small price to pay, compared to wilting plants, heat beating down, and sleepless nights where the temperature doesn’t dip below 30. Which is, incidentally, what the rest of Australia seems to have experienced at some point this summer.
And now the Sydney Morning Herald is positively celebrating the return of the sweaty heat. From what they say was the coolest December in fifty years, Western Sydney was expected to reach a sweltering 39 degrees today, which a forecaster had the temerity to say constituted “the first decent sign of summer”. There’s no pleasing some.
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| Wisteria, Oct-11 |
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| Wisteria, Jan-2012 |
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