There is one thing that you can be sure about at this time of year is that the weather is very changeable. After a scorching hot day the temperatures have plummeted about 10 degrees with a couple of southerlies blowing through.
But never mind the wind. When the sun was shining earlier this week it cast a wonderful light over the front garden in the morning. When I skipped out onto the veranda with my new camera to capture the moment I was gutted to find this grass has grown up in the middle of the flowers. Don’t you hate it when that happens!
I would be lying if I said it was a lone rogue grass. The truth is that the flower bed weeding has taken a bit of a back seat with all the thistling (a new verb to weed, remove, dig up thistles) going on. Never mind though I still liked the way the sun lit up the plants.
It flickered on the legal ornamental grasses and made them sparkle.
Whilst the rest of the garden was in shadow the grasses still shimmered.
The mini potager didn’t quite shimmer and part of it was in shade but I liked the way the beans were soaking in the sun.
Here’s a couple of photos of the skies today. Full of cloud and menace.
But there is hope – glimmers of blue sky peaking through.
Every year we’ve been living in New Zealand the summer doesn’t really arrive until the middle of January. What I mean by that is some consistently sunny weather day after day. This is because New Zealand is an isolated place and it takes a while for the surrounding sea to warm up giving the land mass a chance to warm up too. I’m looking forward to that as this yo-yo weather can be frustrating and make it difficult to plan for anything.
In the meantime, there are thistles to be dug, photographs to be taken, bassets to be walked and chicken houses to be painted. Good job I’m not heading back to work for a few weeks yet.