Winter is coming

Living abroad is exciting but just stepping outside the front door fills your brain with things you have to do. You go out thinking about whether you need to buy milk or the possibility that your neighbours might bale you up and start asking questions which you won't know how to answer because you don't know enough of the language to respond. Your brain never really has a chance to just soak in your surroundings unless it's Sunday when the shops are shut (so you can't worry about the milk) or the streets are empty so theres no chance that someone will try and talk to you, thus leaving your brain to think in it's mother-tongue and admire the things that your surroundings have to offer.

A lot of these things contribute to the fact that I have been really slack with taking photos. Most of the time when I walk out the door my brain is occupied with "do I have my keys?" "am I going to be warm enough in this coat?" "what do I need to buy for dinner?" "do we have enough milk?" "is it the time of day where we say Bonjour or Bonsoir?". So I officially missed the boat on beautifully coloured images of Autumn leaves and the fantastic gradient of reds, yellows and greens on the nearby mountains as the season dwindled away to it's chilly, white successor.

Autumn was spectacularly beautiful! It's a huge novelty for me since there is pretty much only two seasons in Brisbane... stinking hot summers and moderately cold winters and nothing much in between. I thoroughly enjoy the view we have outside our kitchen window of the rolling hills (sometimes with a herd of cows grazing atop) and the quaint (I use that term in a positive sense) village of Lavey. As the days go on, the view outside the window of red and green trees is turning into misty, snowy white mountains (which excites me to no end). I am always keeping an eye on the level of snow as it makes it's way down the side of the mountains, edging closer and closer to the valley floor. In the last few weeks we have had a few trips to places that had snow but nothing excites me more than the thought of looking out of my kitchen window and seeing snow falling from the clouds onto the ground outside of our apartment.