G'day Jack

Few images could be quite so South Australian as the November-December showing of the Jacaranda in the leafy suburbs of Adelaide.
It reminds one that there are end of year exams, and the beginning of Christmas parties, and that the weather (however changeable) is beginning to improve. Soon it will be the fulness of summer, and the fragile flowers of the jacaranda will have long gone.
How clever, too, of God---despite dumping the Southern hemisphere with a whole lot of winter festival (ie-Christmas/Epipahny/Candlemas) in the height of the southern summer; and the greatness of the Spring Festival (Easter) as autumn begins....yet nevertheless it was clever to bedeck the jacaranda in the liturgical purple of Advent.