Summer's coming...no really
Submitted by Hadyn on Wed, 2006-11-01 11:15.
Glancing out the window of the bus yesterday as it rounded the Basin Reserve I noticed something. A glimmer of hope.
The pohutakawas surrounding the Basin are loaded with ready-to-burst flower buds. This can only mean that summer is coming! Hoo-ray!
I wait, in anticipation, for the explosion of wonderful red flowers that is to come. But this got me thinking; what are the signs that show summer is coming to the harbour capital?
Is it the return of the cruise ships?
Is it the glorious clear, still mornings (replaced with cloudy, windy afternoons)?
Is it the kids who aren’t quite sure how to Trick-or-Treat?
Leave your favourite signs in the comments.
Indeed, it's hard to look past the pohutakawas - particularly in Island Bay, where they line the Parade.
At home, it's the first lawn mowing of the season. When the grass goes from its three or four inch winter length, to about eighteen inches in the space of a fortnight.
The return of long evenings on the Indigo balcony.. oh. Does that still happen?
Just one of the pohutakawas at Parliament has decided to come out before the others, so it's starting to spread. For the start of spring or summer, I look for:
Linen suits and white clothes in the shops.
Northerlies picking up in the afternoons because of the Marlborough heat low.
Feeling like a mojito instead of a Martini.
A new sign: there's a whole lot of new growth and flowering in the Waitangi Park wetlands.
Getting afternoon sun into our flat.
All the offices starting to plan Xmas parties.
having to get the sheep sheared :)
Makes me feel like a real kiwi!
good on ya mate!
final CraftWerk for the year
Non-smokers sitting outside bars.
sweaty people carrying jackets on a brillliantly sunny waterfront, looking a little bewildered.
"but... but... it was only 10 degrees in khandallah"
Ha! that's the opposite of me.
During winter, I'd be in town without a jersey, freezing my ass off, saying "but it was sunny in Houghton Bay"