After months of searing heat followed by blustery wind Autumn has arrived. The break [a period of rain] that farmers pray for to allow them to successfully sow their crops usually arrives sometime between end of April and mid-May. We had 8mm of rain last weekend but still the dust rose.
Yesterday the normally brighter than bright blue skies were a dull grey, and this morning thunder rumbled around the hills. We headed into town early ... the 'first Saturday of the month' Market Day was being held, and who could miss purchasing a scrumptious carrot cake and apple pie from Marg's stall!? I refilled my olive oil bottle from the growers of olives ... fresh and pure olive oil.
A heavy shower slowed our trip into town, though there appeared to be more rain at home than there. The electricity was off! Again! For three hours ... I didn't care; washing was done, ironing was completed, the floors vacuumed last night ... a break in electricity supply didn't worry.
As the trees tossed in the 'fresh' wind, fresh being a 'scientific' word for not quite strong and used frequently by those who predict the weather, and huge droplets of water fell from the sky, and lightning rent the air I wondered about My Birds, the Tawny Frogmouth pair. They were in the tree when I checked after breakfast.
Later I wandered over to check on My Birds ... one had moved to better shelter under a branch, and peered dow at me with curiousity, although they are well aware of who I am, and the other still where it was earlier.
The grass is beginning to grow! A patchy green carpet is pushing upwards from the earth.
Autumn has arrived! The garden will not need watering today!
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