Intellectually I am okay with it being fall here, I can even
sort-of visualize the reason for it, being that I am on the other side of the
world and the polar tilt that makes it springtime back home, has to work in
reverse down here. But it is just odd to reconcile the fact that I am walking
around here in Canberra looking at the lovely fall colors coming out while I just
this morning talked to my parents back in Minnesota about the appearance of
their crocuses and daffodils.
It is, of course, a lovely sight! The reds and golds of
autumn down here are just as lovely and as vibrant as they are back home, it
just seems that it was way to recently that I was cruising the mountain passes
in Colorado looking at the aspens and the oaks turning the mountainsides ablaze
with their respective colors.
Where I am, the end of April/beginning of May is the time to
get the final summer barbecues in before the weather gets too cold, wet, and
miserable. While back home everyone is chomping at the bit waiting for Mother’s
Day so that we can get our plants into the ground! It is an upside down
calendar at the bottom of the world!
Wherever you are this morning I hope that you are having a
lovely season – whatever it happens to be there!
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