I thought I'd conquered the downloading of pictures problem with this blog, but copy and paste doesn't seem to work any more either! So I can't share with you the pictures of the weather here in Kommetjie in mid-winter. However, most of the photos that are on my blog page pretty much cover the full spectrum, so you can enjoy them from there for now if you so wish.
The flamingos come and go and only a handful were in the Kom yesterday, despite one of the best winter days ever, a glassy sea, no breeze to ruffle its surface, and a steady chug of fishing boats making their way past the lighthouse on the way back to safe harbour in Hout Bay before the next cold front makes landfall.
Last night the clear skies allowed for a bit of stargazing and this morning at 6.30, the constellation of Orion was already high in the sky - when it is overhead at 9 pm you know it is spring and time for planting summer crops, so even seeing it in the morning sky makes one feel that winter is passing by.
Before we know it, the white daisies will be out again, creating a carpet of snow along the byways of Kommetjie, good enough to rival any West Coast flower display, with bokbaai vygies increasing in number every year to provide splashes of bright colour among the white.
All is quiet again now that the school holidays are over. The children really had magnificent weather this year; I recall the July holidays of my youth being sunny and mild with many opportunities to climb the mountains and go sandboarding at the dunes in the Fish Hoek Valley. Sadly, they are now fully covered with alien vegetation and the playground of our childhood is no longer available for new generations.
This morning it is raining again, but soon it will be sunny - weather systems pass very quickly in Cape Town!
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