This is the hazy, moody sky on the very hot evening of Tuesday after Christmas. We'd just had the first heatwave (4 days) since last summer, and I was desperate for a cool change.
The temperature stayed in the thirties, but it got a bit sticky and some rain fell briefly, and just as the dogs and I were pottering out the gate for an evening walk - too hot to walk them earlier - over the gate glowed a double rainbow.
Such a beautiful beginning to this year of a watery dragon.
The dragon - in fact the water dragon - is my birth year in the East Asian astrological cycle.
The dragon - in fact the water dragon - is my birth year in the East Asian astrological cycle.
The real New Year of the dragon doesn't officially begin until the end of January. Then there'll be a big bash with Yin's family and lions dancing among the fire crackers in Little Bourke Street.
It's about a month between our two big family occasions, and these few weeks between Christmas and Chinese New Year are a quiet space out of everyday life. The frenzy building up to the 25th of December has lapsed into reading and making and dreaming a bit. Then after a bit of craziness with drums and gunpowder and yet more feasting, I return to work and real time.
Water dragons bringing a little rain and rainbows.
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Hi Elizabeth, that's a very auspicious beginning for this New Year. We just had a little heat wave, but I think(hope) today things will be returning to normal. A city tree in front of my house was cut down so the sun beats down more than before. A rainfall would be very welcome. Perhaps I shall have a talk with the water dragon...maybe he is waiting til the end of January to visit...
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