{"id":1034,"date":"2010-02-12T08:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:05:10","slug":"new-england-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/new-england-green\/","title":{"rendered":"New England green"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s now 22 years since I first moved up to this part of the world. It’s referred to as New England, apparently because the early explorers\/settlers thought it looked like England’s green fields – which always kind of puzzled me, because apart from some similarity in gentle rolling hills, I’ve never really seen the resemblance. <\/p>\n

However, we’ve had a fair amount of rain this summer. In this part of the country we don’t get cyclones, or a ‘wet’ season, but in summer we do sometimes get the tail-end\/after effects of the cyclonic weather systems that occur in northern Australia. So, we get mild summer storms, and sometimes periods of rain – and this year, although there’s been no really big storms, we’ve had some good falls, and lighter falls on a regular basis. Gordon keeps track of rainfall, and we had 134mm in January (that’s 6+ inches), and yesterday was the first day in about 12 days that we didn’t have rain. I was thinking just the other day what a wonderful climate – no too hot, not too humid, gorgeous sunshine, beautiful fresh mornings, a fall of rain in the afternoon or evening – what could be better?<\/p>\n

The result of all this rain is that the countryside is currently green. Not the thin hint of new-growth green which is what we usually call ‘green’, but long, green-grass green – lush, abundant, green<\/em>. Greener than I have ever seen in my 22 years here. <\/p>\n

Now it looks like England! Walking along the road yesterday morning, I was reminded of wandering across fields and down lanes in the UK – although there are certainly differences. Wider roads, no hedges, and no village every couple of kilometres!<\/p>\n

Here’s a few photos from yesterday’s morning walk:
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