Spring Sunshine

What do magpies, hay fever and sunshine have in common? They are all features of our wonderful Melbourne spring.
The Magpies have started nesting so I am getting swooped while hanging the washing on the line. Often we have windy days in spring and today is no exception. Unusually though the wind is very warm along with 27 degrees C temperature undoing all the good the recent La Nina rains have done.

The streets around me are resplendent in drifts of blossoms (hence some hay fever) and my garden is glowing with red Mesembryanthemum and brilliant white daisies. As the garden was getting overgrown, I have had several trees and bushes removed. So no more Diosma scents at the front door, no more bee laden Blue Pacific (Ceanothus), which was blown over a couple of years ago. Now the Chinese Pistachio is about to break out into new leaf as is the Persimmon tree. The Nashi Pear is the latest to bud and blossom.
And while the garden is framed in sunshine, light and colour, my solar array is humming away increasing its output of power to approx 4 kWh per day.


Here's to the Federal Government, finally debating the Carbon Tax legislation. Lets get something passed into law, as soon as possible, to try and place the energy reforms needed into some framework. We have seen how successful the current rebates have been and the consequent abrupt winding down of these schemes. Lets not lose the momentum, jobs and investment in clean energy by stopping the Carbon Tax.