The morning after

Many people are at major shopping centres this morning participating in the annual madness that is the Boxing Day sales. Not me. I'm enjoying a quiet, peaceful morning at home which will be followed later on by the mundane task of the week's laundry ahead of interstate visitors who descend on me and my apartment tomorrow for the New Year's week.

What mixed weather we experienced yesterday for Christmas Day. The early morning was very humid and grey such that it appeared to be drizzling rain. It wasn't raining but it looked like it was. Mid morning the weather cleared into a lovely, warm sunny day. Just the day thousands of overseas backpackers want from a Sydney Christmas Day when they descend upon Bondi Beach for a boozy Yuletide and to take photos for their friends and families in home countries who are 'snowbound' and 'winterbound' for their Christmases. Then late afternoon, predicted storms arrived complete with thunder, lightening and heavy rain which continued well into the evening.

It was all for the best. This morning is sunny and clear. The following photo taken from my number 3 bedroom - an aspect I haven't shown you often - reveals, only just, on the distant horizon the blue of the Great Dividing Range about 60 kilometres west of Sydney. You may have to enlarge the photo by clicking on it to see the image better.

At the extreme right of the photo and mid way between top and bottom, just above a line of trees, are four adjacent buildings of similar heights. They are buildings on the campus of St Vincents Private and Public Hospitals where I am a volunteer three days a week.