August. A little bit late.

I am a few (and then some!) days late to post this, 

but better late than never.

We have had a wonderful 10 day break in Australia,

more on that to follow in the next few days.

Happy August!

August

August marks the beginning of the end of the countdown ~

only one more month of cold until Spring officially begins.

After spending June and July admiring the rows of country trees,

bare against the empty sky, 

I have realised I only have a few weeks left to capture them.

And so my mission now is to add to The Winter Trees,

because soon, these trees will no longer be bare.

A winter wonderland

Last week I was busy celebrating the blue sky and blossoms, knowing that spring was well on its way.  This week, we have had a 'once in a lifetime' storm, straight from Antarctica, bringing snow to most of the country - and most of those places have never seen snow like it.  Not in our backyards.

Not so much snow that we get to throw snowballs, make snowman, and marvel at the white winter wonderland all around us.  Schools closed, roads closed ~ moving from card games by the fire, to window snow watching, to playing outside in it and then back to the fire to warm up.  It has been amazing.  Cold, yes, but oh so beautiful.

I know come summer we will have days when it is so hot we won't believe that in August it snowed, that we had 6 inches of snow covering everything.  But to remind us, I have 2 containers of snow in the freezer.  I think there will be a snowball fight on a hot summers afternoon.....

August

Already?  Really?