Our weather has been quite peculiar this autumn.   It’s been extremely warm and we have had many days when a hot, blustery north wind has blown down from the deserts of Australia’s interior.   The bush around here has become very dry and parched looking.

 I took this photo of a dried out river bed on Thursday morning.

Today the weather has taken a plunge towards winter.   It’s suddenly cold and pouring with rain.   I snapped this image with my phone as I looked out my kitchen window at breakfast time.

In her prompt https://zimmerbitch.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/the-changing-seasons-march-2019/writes about her nation’s grief over the terrible attack on Muslims in a mosque in Christchurch NZ earlier this month.

The gunman was an Australian and I feel we Australians must take some responsibility for this as a nation.   Certain politicians in our Government have promoted racial and religious intolerance in their ignorant. bigoted and racist…