Perth Winter

My desk is at the window looking due west over leafy suburbs and parliament building. On monday the temperature heated up to almost 30 degrees and the air was like soup until the evening when the rain began. We had a brief storm in the morning and I sat and watched the sky go black over the the rush hour traffic from 20 stories up. Lightening struck out to sea and thunder spoke nearby my window, then was silent.

Today is crisp and cold and bright and I can see all the way to the lighthouse on Rottnest Island. I'll go out later in my coat and stockings and be a wash of black in the sunlight, stepping down the Terrace.