Autumn - A Retrospective

Today was mostly sunny with a maximum of twenty degrees. The main thing giving away that it was winter was the porridge I made for breakfast, along with the fact that as soon as the sun went down my nose and other extremities lost blood flow and I started wishing it was spring really hard. This has been happening the last few weeks of Autumn too - except for the reaching twenty degrees part…

Safe to say that this autumn was not the best season of the year. Sure there was BBQs and sunrises, morning beach walks and sun-drenched lunchtime strolls, IPAs and dark ales, but there was no day where nectarines and pink lady apples were both on special, nor a night in my favourite hoody followed by a day warm enough to wash and dry it. The lemons on my tree still aren’t fully ripe. It feels like as the cold has crept into Adelaide it's brought only gloom and bad news with it.

I think I realise now that the only good things about Autumn are the echoes of summer.

I love winter though. Well at least I will once we move to a tropical climate.