Jan 13 2009
self portrait in snow
That’s a portrait of her self, not myself. My image doesn’t show up on CCD.
When I moved to London, I was somewhat surprised to find that the weather was more or less the same as Melbourne, just one or two degrees colder. That one or two degrees, of course, is enough to give us snow a few days a year. Or, rather, SNOW!!! with capitals and three exclamation marks. I’m from Perth, where summer is forty degrees Celsius; I didn’t see snow till I was thirty-six. I still bounce up and down at the sight of it.
(There is snow in Melbourne, but only up in the Dandenongs and not much of it.)
We just had a cold week where a warm front in the Atlantic Ocean led to cold air coming straight down from the Arctic. A few days of snow, then a week of sunny days at minus two. Melbourne weather in extremis: several layers, gloves, scarf and sunglasses.
Photo: “..so…much…snow… *dies*” by *Zara. Taken with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT on 10 March, 2008. CC by-sa 2.0.
