A Moody Afternoon

Although our weather has improved slightly with less rain and more warm days, it is often quite dark and rarely really hot but then it’s only the first couple of weeks of summer. Somehow, despite my best intentions to stay put at home and finish some plantings and more of the endless weeding and straightening up of certain overgrown and unkempt parts of our front and back gardens, I had to go to the bank. This was all realized at 3 p.m. and so without changing my work clothes I hastily scrubbed off some of the soil sticking to me, along with some weedy things that seemed attached to my track pants and got in the car.

My trusty mate agreed to drive me there and back. What a guy.

Many minutes of gorgeous scenery was passed up along the way before it occurred to me to take out my phone and shoot a few photos as we were speeding by. It was just so theatrical, like a staged set and dark around our place but once we got closer to civilization the brightness was cranked up a few notches along with the heat. At our house the high was 21 degrees Celsius, or around 71 degrees Fahrenheit. In the township of Amberley, where our bank is, it was 26 degrees or 81 and very sunny. So there’s quite a difference between the two places, which sometimes can be quite nice, but often I miss the hotter days. Anyway, these dark days can get me down. It just seems like twilight all the time and I need the sun to fire on all cylinders. So the brief trip into the town helped my mood even though the skies near our house were very moody and dramatically so. Of course I missed the best shots though of a lone animal, the white horse or the taupe colored bull, with a huge paddock all to themselves and the endless skies above. Without lots of buildings to clutter up our skyline in our neighborhood, the skies are phenomenally breathtaking no matter what the weather, even for a Fairweather.