Monday, October 26, 2015

Spring, so far...

In the Antipodes, a new season starts on the 1st of the relevant month, 
not the 21st as in the northern hemisphere. 

Therefore, in four days' time we shall be starting our 3rd month of spring. 

With luck, month 3 will be an improvement on September and October! 
We have had weeks and weeks of winds - cold, strong, nasty winds. And very little rain. 

You expect some windy days in spring, and also some gentle, life-giving rain. Hmmph!

There are a few small brave signs of the season, thankfully. Most of the earlier blossoms
and flowers were destroyed by the wind. Tattered freesias and ripped daffodils are not very attractive!








And to qualify for Carmi's Thematic Photographic 353, "Size Small",
here's a monarch from last summer.


18 comments:

  1. I wish we did change our seasons at the equinox. It makes more sense to me.
    We too have had a weird Spring. Record-breaking high temperatures. Followed by chilly days. And now it is getting windy.
    Some world wide weather moderation would be nice.

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    1. Well, it's certainly never boring! We haven't had anything approaching warmth.

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  2. Lovely butterfly, Alexia. I hope you and your flowers get some nice rains.
    ~

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  3. Lovely clematis rambling over the fence! And a really beautiful butterfly! Do you truly get Monarchs over there? How wonderful!

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    1. Thanks Gilly. Yes, we get lots of Monarchs - but not many other interesting butterflies, I must admit.

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  4. What a beautiful Monarch butterfly, and other flower gardens, Alexia! I still find it so interesting to hear about the seasons outside of my own, and I still recall my mixed feelings in school we discovered while we enjoyed summer others were experiencing winter! That was major back then.

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    1. Thank you Karen. I loved your cute Size Small guy :)

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  5. And here we are just about to enter a long winter - and will start off by having the All Blacks wallop the Australians.

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    1. Hmmm - please see my comment on your blog, Badger.

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  6. That is some beautiful picture of the Monarch. I read that an El Nino in S. America, as there is a very strong one going on, can cause drought in the southern hemisphere.

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    1. Thank you, Strayer. Yes, we are expecting a dry summer on the eastern coasts of the country - which is the side I live on.

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    1. Thank you. It was still drying out in this shot.

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  8. I admired your clematis and, of course, the magnificent monarch. It will be April/May before we see a buttefly again.

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    1. Bob: Yesterday I noticed that a chrysalis which had been hanging blackly under an eave all winter, which I thought was dead, is showing development inside! Amazing.

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  9. A lovely garden & that Butterfly photo is incredibly sharp & detailed. We have a one season old Clematis & it's still pretty small. Looking forward to it getting as spread out on the fence as yours.

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    1. Thank you, Tony. That clematis is only in its second spring. I have to chop it back often, or it would take over the neighbourhood!

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