• Australian-style....
• And dang it, I keep forgetting to update it as the seasons happen. :/

October ⇒ spring

• Alternate warm and cool days.
• Spring thunderstorms with lots of rain.
• Bright green new growth is showing on most plants.
• The bottlebrushes are blooming.
• The roses are starting to bloom.
• Everything is blooming.
• Leaves are growing on the cherry.
• People are coming down with spring colds.

August ⇒ early-spring

• The flowering plants are starting their second blooming.
• It rains less and is a little warmer.

May ⇒ mid-autumn

• I get up before dawn, and I get to see the sky change from purple to pink to peach every morning.
• leaves are starting to fall from the deciduous trees. The city is starting to look brown and yellow instead of green.
• Piles of dry, brown leaves start to pile up in the gutters.
• People are starting to come down with colds and flu.
• Everything is green, but growth is slowing down.
• Soup is really appealing.
• I want to turn on the oven and bake comforting-smelling things.

April ⇒ early-autumn

• The hardenbergia are flowering bright purple.
• daylight saving ends and all of a sudden it's light in the mornings again.
• it's fully dark when I leave the house in the morning.
• It's Comedy Festival time: everyone's a comedian this time of year.
• Easter; hot cross buns; chocolate.
• Comfort food.

March ⇒ late-summer

• cooler.
• new shoots starting to appear from dead branches.
• the first sign of autumn is the haze in the air.
• can't be sure now if dropped dead leaves are still from the heat or from the first fall of autumn.
• the sky is still dark blue when I leave the house in the morning.
• bougainvillea are flowering bright purple and pink.
• nights are cooler; the doona is put back on the bed.
• the bottlebrushes are in flower.
• signs advertising the Comedy Festival start to appear.
• start to wear a cardigan in the early mornings.
• the urge to bake things re-emerges.

February ⇒ mid-summer

• extremely hot: slow ; waiting for it to be cooler.
• bushfires: fear, worry.
• plants that were thriving are wilting from heat.
• dead plants: dry leaves crumble off the branch.
• yellow sun ; blue sky.
• the new year starts to sink in.

January ⇒ mid-summer

• recovering from New Year's Eve.
• warm every day.
• the baby birds are nearly adult now.
• warm winds from the North.
• shiny new little green leaves on all of the plants.
• leaves wilt in the heat. lots of watering.
• very hot ; sweat ; slow ; doing as little as possible.
• bushfires.
• the tennis: excitement ; tourists ; busyness.
• the utter relief of a cool change.
• summer seedlings growing before your eyes.

December ⇒ early summer

• it starts to get hot.
• it doesn't get dark until after 8.30pm.
• bushfire weather (late Dec).
• the agapanthus bloom.
• blue skies most days.
• not a cloud in the sky.
• the azaleas finish blooming.
• second-flowering roses begin (late Dec).
• all the plants grow madly as I water them.
• the earth smells dry.
• leaves wilt and dry out.
• Christmas time: excitement, business, anticipation.
• I finally start to buy the mince pies and shortbreads that the supermarket has already been offering for months.
• cinnamon and nutmeg and orange peel.
• the city is packed out with people.
• tourists wheel their suitcases confusedly in the early morning cool.
• red and green and carols in the shops.
• Summer Solstice.
• looking forward to New Year.
• icypoles.
• cherries & mangoes.