Autumn and the grumps

Autumn seems to be well and truly here, it's cold and we have been living in a cloud (really,  the dew point has been verrry close to the temperature). On the plus side the leaves are all turning delightful shades of yellow, orange and red (and then a dead brown looking colour). This colour change gives me a thrill because in Australia most of our trees are evergreen.

The weather has ruined our weekend plans a few times, making for grumpy people, because we tend to like tramping around the outdoors.  I made a Grumpasaurus in appropriate Autumn colours to laugh at when this happens. Marito particularly likes the shoes. I shouldn't complain about the weather too much, my home state in Australia is currently roasting and some areas have a catastrophic fire warning, this warning basically means pack your bags and go...yesterday. The warning system was recently upgraded to include the catastrophic warning level following the fallout from the Black Saturday fires in Victoria.

We're going to try to go to Aquileia this weekend - last weekend was a washout - and then maybe into the Val Rosandra for more Autumn goodness.