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Happy Wet Wordless Wednesday Melbourne!

All the above photos were taken in my local park yesterday. There is still quite a bit of colour around, even if it is beginning to feel a lot like Winter! Hope you are staying dry where ever you are in the world. Thanks to Sue at  Wordless on Tuesday Shhhhhh, LET'S GET  WORDLESS!!

End of Melbourne's Summer... sob sob

End of Summer surfboard sale Rye Ocean Beach, Mornington Peninsula Autumn leaves arriving... Muddy paws! linking with Wordless Wednesday

Farewell to summer... well sort of!

I’m interrupting my Myanmar posts to bring this announcement:   Summer is over. Australia is now officially in autumn! Inverloch, Victoria - Summer 2016 We seemed to gallop through summer this year, but it was a good one. Although come to think about it the reason it went by in a flash  was I had December in the UK and February in Myanmar.  I was out of Australia for one month of it! Hey, quiet in the back rows. I know some of you are smirking that I'm practically ' out of it' year round :) Gunnamatta Ocean Beach - Mornington Peninsula Of course just to lull us into a false sense of security  with our sudden rude onset of early winter.  It’s 34 degrees here in Melbourne today.  With the same highs forecast tomorrow - Yay!  It is the warmest start to March in eleven years, so it's not all bad here. Portsea Ocean beach - Mornington Peninsula Every Summer has it's own story.  As you gallop to...

Melbourne's Autumn glory.

Autumn has arrived in Melbourne with her "where are my slippers?" chilly nights, but with glorious golden "pass me my sunnies* " days. Our local streets are resplendent at the moment, our tree lined streets adorned with a myriad of colours. Soon the branches will be bare... Autumn Streets in Camberwell, Vic Our Council sweeps our streets monthly, but from April 20th some streets qualify for the extra Heavy Leaf-Fall sweeping program. The Council requests that we keep vehicles off the street on designated sweeping days. The sweeper truck whooshes along clearing and washing away all the leaves. Crazy Poodle champion leaf catcher. Our home street, despite its many trees is not one such street. No special extra street sweeping for us... But not to worry! We've got the Crazy Poodle. His coat is like velcro to the leaves... A quick scamper down the street, he stops for a wee at every tree anyway... and by the end o...