Sunset

 

Very beautiful sunset tonight. We get these particularly when the wind is in the North-west, a hot wind called a Foehn wind, which comes across the Tasman sea from Australia, picks up moisture as it travels, then dumps the rain on the west coast of the island as it lifts over the mountains. Once over the mountains it races over the Canterbury plains getting drier and hotter; it's our classic hot-weather summer scenario, the only time we get really hot weather here. And beautiful sunsets with calm warm evenings.

 

The orange-pink light makes orange-pink spectrum flowers almost fluorescent - lovely effect.

Tomorrow will be another hot day like today. I spent most of it in bed with a tummy bug though, so hopefully I'll see more of the golden weather tomorrow.