Autumn

Winter officially starts on Tuesday. Though to be honest it feels like it started a couple of weeks ago, when the temperature dropped, and then stayed, below 20 Celsius, the nights got into the single digits, and the leaves have started falling off the trees and going mushy in the rain.

It's prompted me to reflect on autumn and what that season brings. It's a strange season here, because in my memory it seems to go pretty quickly between summer and winter, barely registering spring or autumn. But this year autumn seemed a more recognisable change, it seemed to last a little longer and show itself more clearly.

It's brought a lot of rain this year (which is a good thing here)and very changeable weather. It started with long mellow days, then mild fresh days, and finally cold and dark days. The days seemed to grow shorter at a phenomenal speed.

But most of all, autumn this year revealed its true colourful splendour in all its glory. Crisp blue skies, trees ranging from green to yellow to red to brown, grass shooting new green leaves where once there was dry brown dirt. A true cacophony of colour, nature's final flourish before sleeping for the winter.

I can't wait to see what spring holds.