I am working from home on Fridays now, which means I actually have a view of the outside world while working instead of being stuck in my windowless cube at the office.
It is now clouding over a little and the expected rain may yet make an appearance, but the weather this morning was incredibly beautiful and reminded me so much of Christmas in Malaysia. Clear, deep blue skies, a brisk wind blowing (though much cooler here than it would be in KL), trees swaying, air that feels clean and refreshing ... I keep expecting to have to run upstairs to the balcony to make sure the birds aren't eating the raisins, sultanas and cherries that we just chopped up for the Christmas cake!
That's what Christmas weather is to me, and I'm now suddenly in a Christmas mood. People living in non-Equatorial countries have no idea what I'm talking about, of course, but that's what Christmas was like most of my life, and anything else just seems wrong. Even Bing Crosby's Hawaiian Christmas song sounds like a KL Christmas - "Here you know that Christmas will be green and bright, the sun to shine by day and all the stars at night ..." I hope we are all able to get together again at some point for Christmas in KL.
The only different thing here is the many leaf colours. Even in our backyard, there's such a variety of reds, oranges, yellows and greens. This really is the prettiest time of the year. Bruce took a bunch of photos when we went up to the mountains a couple of weeks ago and has been working on them, so hopefully he'll post some in Phanfare soon (see, I can nag you even from the blogosphere!)
I have to get back to work now - those rapidly approaching rain clouds look like a storm is coming. That's another funny thing about life here - I'm used to looking out the window to see what sort of weather can be expected, and it's pretty easy in Malaysia to know when we can expect rain (either hujan perolakan or the monsoons). Weather here is not so predictable, so when we want to know what the day is going to be like, we have to check the news or weather website. I still look out a window for short-term weather reports, though. Right now, it's getting very overcast and dark, which feels like a regular November afternoon in KL!
(By the way, I don't think I've ever used the word Christmas so many times in one piece of writing!)
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