It's the Summer Solstice in AA and the Winter Solstice in NZ. What a flip flop - the longest day of the year for you, and the shortest for us. You are worried about your AC working, and we're ordering more firewood. You're eating cool salads, and we're eating hot soups. You're drinking white wines, and we're drinking red.
Weird weather - more like spring than the first day of winter although winter starts June 1 down under. Warm and wet - not so bad really. Very gray, low-hanging clouds, and occasional showers. By late afternoon the sky had lightened a bit, but we could tell there would be no sunset tonight. Unexpectedly, flashes of light appeared along the horizon. We blinked, not quite sure of what we had seen. More flashes and eventually some rumbling noises. Aha! Crikey! It's a thunderstorm. Huge gusts of wind and sheets of rain moved swiftly across the Pacific and huffed and puffed at our windowpanes. Sooo........summer/winter, but we all have thunderstorms.
The pictures are of the other side of our house - the side that faces the street and Paekakariki Hill with the sheep grazing on it. How they keep their footing is a mystery to me. They must be velcroed onto that hill.
Top image is our house. The first row next to the ocean, fourth house from the left. We're facing your direction.
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