Summer has returned with less intensity than before, although we still have January and February to go through. The sun is rising noticeably later and the birds seem to have got over their feeding and breeding frenzy of the last months. Things are relaxed and laid back in Kommetjie. School holidays are winding down and next week the morning traffic will be back to normal, causing stress and chaos which is absent during holidays. I would say that lays the blame squarely in a certain place!
Along the roadside, the flowering gums are coming into bloom, covering the trees with hues from cameo pink to deepest crimson. Except for the huge tree in front of my house, which has white flowers and is now half dead. Some parts are shooting out new leaves, but the branch overhanging the driveway will probably fall off in a winter storm! That will seriously unbalance the rest of the tree and it remains to be seen how long it will be before the neighbour's cars are crushed.
Tonight the sun sets at 20.01, the latest for summer, and then we start sliding down the slippery slope towards the shortest day - this is the best time to be in Cape Town - our long autumn lasts from March to the end of June. Which reminds me that autumn always starts on the Easter weekend - without fail, the temperatures drop from then, and this year Easter is particularly late on 18 April, so enjoy the long hot summer!
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