Eww, summer. Also, icon.

[active_apathy]

Today was the first day of summer. This traditionally means that I get to melt officially in squillion-degree heat, which hasn't happened yet this year, and if the weather stays like it has been then the season might be almost tolerable. Except, of course, the twenty-fifth, which is very nearly required by law to be eleventy billion degrees in the shade. Even the much-publicised Mortiferous Fauna try to find somewhere cool to hide.

(Still, I'd prefer the weather I was promised last week. Hot and cold running storms? Thanks kindly.)


It also traditionally means twenty-three shopping days left until xmas. And so, my second-last icon space is now occupied by this year's seasonal icon. And, plus side, this one took about a day less to make than This Season did.

I also have my 5th of November icon for next year planned plotted, which is a day later than last year. So. Um. We're fine, we're all fine, here, now, thankyou. How are you?

Comments

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

NZ has started pretty well, Summer-wise. or at least here in Wellington, it's been lovely the last couple days.

I'm just happy cause the pohutakawa in our front yard is going to be covered in blossom this year, by the looks of thing. I love everything being covered in red needles, so pretty!

[ladyphoenixia.livejournal.com]

Of all the things of NZ I miss, I miss pohutakawas the most. One day, when I have a home of my own here in Sydney, I'm going to grow a pohutakawa in my backyard and have those red flowers i love so much, to which bottlebrushes can never compare.

(And a feijoa tree. Love feijoas.)

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

I used to live in the Bay of Plenty, and man, the smell of feijoa trees on a hot day is the most amazing thing.

[ladyphoenixia.livejournal.com]

Whereabouts? My grandparents have a beach house at Pukehina Beach that we used to go to every summer, and love to visit whenever we're over there. I think the Bay of Plenty is definitely one of the more beautiful places in the world.

(Especially since I'm from the west coast, where all the dreadful beaches with black sand are, haha).

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Tauranga. Te Puna to be exact. I spent four years living there with my grandparents and my Mum during my high school years, which was an interesting change. I'm certainly glad I moved back to Wellington after school, but it is certainly beautiful. My grandparents house was on a section of land that used to be the farm, though the rest of it was sold and subdivided. It was lovely country to live in, full of avocado orchards and farmland and gardens.

[ladyphoenixia.livejournal.com]

It sounds beautiful. My grandmother used to live in Tauranga/Mt Maunganui, lovely place.

But I know what you mean about needing to move after school - I went to primary school in a smallish town in Taranaki, then my dad preempted things by moving to a big city, Sydney, because much as little places like that are beautiful, you really do need somewhere slightly larger for uni and stuff during your young adult years.

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. It helped that I was moving back to where I'd grown up as well, but I was so so glad to be back in the city, I had been going slightly mad stuck out in the waps.