It’s a sunshiny day! What do you do?
After a cold and windy August, spring has arrived in Australia. Instead of waking up to gloomy dark mornings, the sun is now poking its head over the horizon before 6am. While our southern states are still waiting for some warmth, here in the Hunter Valley New South Wales, the early spring days have been lovely.
After the first cup of tea to kick start the day, my dog and I go for a walk to enjoy this new season and after such wonderful rain this year our gardens are in full bloom. I’ve been weeding, trimming and today I planted my first bougainvillea. Fingers crossed it will like where I put it and grow.
I’m not on my own enjoying these early sunshiny days, the native birds are 
taking full advantage as well. There have been flocks of white cockatoos screeching their heads off in the eucalyptus trees nearby and rosellas are busy gorging on the nectar in the bottlebrush trees. Its widely believed kookaburras laughing in the middle of the day means more rain on the way, but who knows, they could very well be laughing at us. However, farmers swear a large flock of black cockatoos means serious rain is on the way.
While the kookaburras and cockatoos forecasting skills have nothing to do with my plans for a sunshiny day, I thought I’d mention them because they make these days so much nicer.
The spring sunshiny days are my favourite for all too soon the intense heat of summer will be with us and when those sunny days hit 40+ degrees C the air conditioner is my best friend.
What do you think?
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Wow, it sounds lovely! I should take up gardening…
Kari
I love to hear about the kookaburras and the cockatoos! The most interesting birds we look forward to every summer are the loons, but you have to be really far north of here to hear them. Their calls are so distinctive and haunting. Did you know that often in spooky movies, it’s the call of the loons they will use for “atmosphere”, even when the setting is nowhere near the north woods of Wisc, Minn, or Canada? LOL!