Grass is greener

[elissande]

Went to Canberra over the weekend. The trip down was after dark and filled with trucks and other car drivers feeling suicidal.

Coming back on Sunday was lovely. The day was warm; the car was air-conditioned; the traffic was light. While it was warm, it hasn't yet reached that stage where it feels like the landscape is being baked. In fact, due to recent rain (maybe not quite enough to break the drought in Southern NSW), the grass was green and the trees looked happy. Lake George was a sea of green, as opposed to the brown that it has been the last few times I've been past i, and there was even a little bit of surface water in it.

Unfortunately, they're predicting 42 (Celsius) for tomorrow...

Comments

[mikz.livejournal.com]

My usual longing for real summers aside, it does seem rather early in the year for 42°C. Weather is odd. I remember, in the first half of the 1990s, that the temperature never got into the 40s—one Mardi Gras fair day it hit 40, but that was it, and I remember wondering what happened to the weeks of 40s that I experienced as a kid. It seems they're back now, and making up for lost time.

Glad you had a good weekend. I miss that drive as well. =)

hot!

[elissande.livejournal.com]

I remember weeks of hotness when I was a child also - and the winters seemed colder. As my childhood is a bit before yours, I wonder if those seemingly endless heatwaves were because everything seemed longer then. It was eons between one Christmas and the next! :)