glorious rain .....

beautiful, gorgeous

oh most welcome rain.

we are revelling in it.

not really - we are all cosy inside.  Venturing out when it is absolutely necessary.

You should all be able to see our smiles from where you are .....

summer. at last.

view from our home a few days ago - some showers down on the coast by bypassing us ...

almost surreal light

always the hope that rain will build

a little later as the sun moved upwards.  doesn't look like we have been 6 months parched but although the grass is green, the trees have been so stressed and have dropped a huge amount of their leaf.
underfoot is thick with brittle leaf litter .

The thing that affects us largely here is that although we are a catchment area for the coast, with all the restriction in building codes that involves, we all rely on rainwater here on the Range.  With all this rain our tanks are overflowing.  We are catching the tail end of cyclonic weather - that cliched saying 'it never rains but it pours' is ringing true at the moment.

Further south in Australia fires are still raging.