Autumn’s in no hurry
It’s autumn here in Sydney, winter is only a month away and our small back yard is pretending it’s still summer. The leaves on the frangipani hold resolute, fat lemons are ripening and even the fig tree has put on more fruit.
The plants are playing tricks, and I’m happy to play along.
I’m happy to sit quietly in the sunshine, breathing in the soft light, enveloped in this unexpected world of calm. I watch as the light shifts against the sandstone, catching the last flower on the blue ginger, bright against the orange clivia that two weeks ago threw out a final bloom.
It’s an illusion, I know, nothing more than a pause before the last out breath, when the trees realise there is no further need to hold on and they willingly let go of their leaves.
I know winter can’t be kept at bay. That knowledge makes me drink in the beauty of today.
16 comments on “Autumn’s in no hurry”
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Enjoy each day to the fullest!
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If only I could remember that EVERY day!
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Yes, it is a practice, to be sure!
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I hope it managed to hang on through the arctic blast that hit us all yesterday. They say there will be a few warmer days in the next week or so, but today definitely feels like winter. Not fair when it’s still April!
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Where are you Helen? Are you in Sydney? I must have slept through that arctic blast!
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No, South West Rocks (500km north, halfway between Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour) but I thought the temperature had dropped dramatically in Sydney as well.
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I LOVE seeing pictures of your garden! Btw, it is springtime here in the U.S.
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Hello lovely lady, how are you doing? Hope your life is brimful of health and love.
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Thank you, it is! So good to ‘see’ you.
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Hi Deb.
Glad your garden is doing well. Ours didn’t do very well at all this year. A few veggies hardly any raspberries. The flowering shrubs and trees did OK but that was about it.
Love.
Thelma and Jack.
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hello Jack, hello Thelma, I wonder what happened in your garden this year? Fingers crossed it delivers after winter! Love and best wishes to you both
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Beautiful post, I felt I was sitting there looking around with you. Our Summer is just starting here and I dread the humid heat that is coming. Enjoy that beauty while it lingers.
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Sorry to hear you get humidity Ron, dry heat is so much easier to cope with. Here’s hoping you get a mild summer
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I always love to see the fruits of your magical green thumb:). And the plants I can’t grow here b/c it gets too cold in winter!
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Thanks Kay, after forty years in chilly England I still marvel that I can look out of the window and see citrus growing in the back yard.
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It is truly a blessing!
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