If you look down, you'll find the Wurrundjerri (Woiwurrung) seven seasons
though only five for the Bunerong who are a coastal people.
I disagree strongly with Beth Gott's calendar - though she's a very nice
person in every other way! It seems to miss one of my favourites. The early
winter (May-June) is wet and windy like an English autumn but the late winter
(July) is high pressure weather with cold clear nights and sunny days around
16-19deg. Neither look much like a true winter at all and July can be wonderful
weather by any measure.
The 'winter' is not a dead season - that belongs to late 'summer'. The
conventional seasons don't fit so fine tuning their names is pointless and
misleading. The Koories had it right.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 01/03/2011, at 8:04 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> Hmmm. Well there are six according to this website:
> http://home.vicnet.net.au/~herring/seasons.htm. What's your seventh?
>
> Charlie
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> You live in the Antipodes - we don't have European seasons. There are seven
>> seasons in Melbourne.
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01/03/2011, at 2:23 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm,
>>>
>>> Summer is over, today is the first day of Autumn.
>>>
>>> Whatever happened to summer this year?
>>> Looks as though my tomatoes maybe won't ripen. :-(
>>>
>>> On the other hand, we are having a marvellous mushroom season; species
>>> so far are:
>>> Suillus luteus
>>> Agaricus arvensis
>>> Langermannia gigantea
>>> Leccinum versipelle
>>> Macrolepiota rhacodes
>>>
>>> Brian Swale.
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