June
It was only when the temperature dropped below fifteen that I realised it was June, it was winter and suddenly half the year has slipped behind us. It’s been a year since we lived in Montreal and four months since I got back from Canada for the second time. And maybe it’s the cold weather that has me reminiscing all over again, but I still feel like I’m getting over that time abroad. I feel like we all are still a little drunk on the nostalgia and trying to get past the slight disillusion that 2011 is shaping up to be.
But it’s not all cold, early mornings, nostalgia, memories and regrets. This year has been really good too. I got engaged! Which was amazing, exciting, exhausting, dizzying and still takes me by surprise every day. It takes me back to Montreal of course, and three words written in the snow on a cold February morning. It makes my heart beat a little faster every time I think of it.
We’ve started making engagement party invites and my desk looks even more chaitic than usual!
Winter also means cheap citrus fruits from the markets. Brisbane Square has a market on every Wednesday no matter how cold and windy the weather is. I stock up on citrus and cheap apples for the week so our fruit bowl usually looks like this: (I also have some amazing lemons but they don’t fit!)
Even though it’s supposed to be the dry month we’ve had a few last showers/down pours. But the pots of herbs on our deck are happy and our garden looks so pretty in the rain. Which reminds me, we also moved house. And although it’s smaller we couldn’t be happier. We even have our own avocado tree and apparently, tis the season the season for avos!
So it might be freezing outside, but we’re all warm and fuzzy inside and excited about what the rest of the year has in store for us.
