Wind warning...
One of the Big Gum Trees
OK. Have just received emergency notification for damaging high winds, starting early tomorrow morning. Guess I'll be sleeping in the house. Hope my gum trees will be OK (they're quite big).
Thursday - waiting for the wind...
I am used to wind. I garden in the wind all the time. I might moan and groan a little, but I get over it. Surely the wind can't get any noisier/stronger? Then one rationalises : a local state of emergency is in place for the noisiest and strongest of reasons. So I've cancelled all my little road trips, and am staying inside.
Goodbye, blossom...
Have said goodbye to the late cherry blossom and the remaining Wisteria flowers. Am drinking my second cup of hot tea. Am ready for whatever happens. Is this a good time to go outside and take a photograph of the tree peony?
Ten minutes later - fortunately, yes. After all, I've been gardening in the wind all week, so naturally I am sooooooo tough. Found all sorts of interesting things to take photographs of.
Then I fed my dogs and sat on the bench overlooking the Frisbee Lawn. 'C'mon, wind - come and get me!' I shouted (one can get a little childish in one's mature years).
Shrubs in the Frisbee Border
Nothing happened, so I put my little watering hoses on. Definitely no lingering undeath any of the big gums.
Flowering Corokia
Lunchtime...
My garden and I have been lucky. Nothing nasty so far for us, not much big wind. We have gentle rain shadow (are quite a distance from the mountains, so this doesn't happen very often). Other country homes are not so lucky, though.
Hope all my friends and family are OK. Hope nobody is silly enough to be out hiking in the hills.
A bit later...
Very, very odd. I thought I'd be cowering inside my house while the big winds roared through my trees. Not so. Since the atmosphere in my garden is still fairly calm, I am going gardening, into the Allotment Garden to pull out grass seedlings. Thought I'd done this ages ago - obviously didn't finish the job. Also will plant the two little Escallonias.
Fifteen minutes later...
I'm back! Blast! Within fifteen minutes the wind spied me down there and decided to roar its disapproval. Am back inside, because I am not silly. Not usually, that it...