{"id":587,"date":"2009-04-22T08:17:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T22:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2009-04-22T08:20:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T22:20:52","slug":"autumn-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/autumn-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Autumn has settled in; although we haven’t, yet, had a frost, the evenings and mornings are decidedly cooler, and the days are growing shorter. The past couple of days have had an edge of chill – and the University (where I’m working part-time this semester) has tuned the heating system on. We haven’t lit the fire at home so far, but I have started wearing my wool jumpers (that’s ‘sweaters’ in American), and we turn the electric blanket on to warm the bed before bedtime.<\/p>\n

In town yesterday afternoon, I caught these flashes of colour against the dark grey sky.
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Autumn colour - Beardy Street, Armidale<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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Banner against autumn sky. Beardy Street, Armidale<\/p><\/div>\n

Most Australian native trees aren’t deciduous, but Armidale has many plantings of non-natives in the streets, many of them chosen for their Autumnal colour displays, as we do have the advantage of four distinct seasons here – unlike many Australian towns and cities.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what the banners are celebrating – but they were all through the Beardy Street pedestrian mall, and looked great fluttering against the grey sky.<\/p>\n

And it did occur to me, as I was taking the photos, how nice it is to be in a built landscape where the sky is so visible, and isn’t crowded by high-rise buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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