changing seasons

These have been popping up all over the place the last few weeks.

I'm sure I used to be a bear in a former life, the sort that hibernates during winter. Because for the last month or so that's all I want to do. Take a break from life, sleep, and wake up when it's warmer and the sun is shining.

Living in the Dandenongs, we experience the seasons in a way we never did in Brisbane. We get a real Autumn – even though now it's almost over. Most of the trees are bare, leaves having turned red, orange, cigar brown or yellow and fluttered down to the ground forming a thick carpet. While this might all sound very beautiful, and it is, the downside is we have lots of leaves to rake up and compost. I shouldn't really say we, cause we don't rake. Drew does.

It's now almost Winter. Officially tomorrow. And we've been having fires almost every night the past few weeks. The sort of fires that you sit in front of and knit. We've been scrounging for firewood – limbs of trees that have fallen off in the storms we have had recently. Having a wood shed half-full of wood makes one feel very self-sufficient. I even baked biscuits (cookies to you in the USA) the other day.

Yesterday we awoke to fog. The house was shrouded in a pale grey fog that made you want to stay inside, curled up on the couch. Today we have blue skies and sunshine, I might even venture out today. Maybe rake up some of those leaves...

Comments

[Jasmine]

I'm heading to the Dandy's to live in a couple of weeks and I can't wait! I know it's cold up there but that photo and the thought of toasty fires is very inviting.

[Beth]

Gorgeous toadstools! Just like the ones in all the fairy books :)

[katiecrackernuts]

My ma and pa moved to the Southern Highlands of NSW a few years back and have the same toadstools popping up in their garden. Where they are, on the edge of a national park escarpment is not unlike the Dandenongs. The council allows residents to forage along roadsides for certain months of the year. Free firewood and the council gets its roadsides cleared of large limbs for nix. Win Win.

[lusummers]

so strange to think of it being autumnal/wintery elsewhere - i've not moved all weekend from a chair in the blazing sunshine here in the uk :) yes, tell mr greenolive it's really true, blazing sunshine!

[shannon]

I didn't know you lived in Brisbane - I grew up there : ) It's a small world!

[Anna Laura]

Sorry I missed you yesterday, it would have been lovely to see you. I was braving the rain for a concert in Sale, wearing your lovely scarf. I wore the two together at the football today. Kept me warm.

[Michelle]

What a stunning photo!

Winter has already hit us in the capital. I'm loving it!

[Christy]

They are adorable! I imagine a little gnome sitting nearby..

[Liesl (Hoppo Bumpo)]

Winter certainly feels like its just around the corner. Your photo of the toadstool is beautiful. I'm sure the fairies can't be too far away!