Tropical Zone Gardening: Winters here!But having Spring Memories!!, 0 by

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Greetings from my back garden on the 24th of Dec Monday morning 6.20 am and only 60F! ...do you realize that some of our temps are only 10F apart ? ...what's up with that!
News coming through that our inland drought stricken areas are copping it bigtime with the first rain in years:) although cut off in some parts and flooding in what was dry river beds the people are all wading around with grins on their faces! Great Christmas present for them they reckon.
What does happen in snow to all of your birds ...how do they cope?
Where do they go? ...in the Winter here our own dam (1 and a half acres of it) is crowded with birds that have come in to spend the Winter ...black swans wild ducks and geese ...ibis and even the odd pelican.Our native birds hang around in my garden as it is heavily planted with triffids :) They set up a chorus of complaints if I am not there to feed them.The Cockies ...grass budgies,finches,kookaburras,fairy wrens,blue wrens tend to come and go depending on what is fruiting and what bugs are around ...it is a real passing parade ...and despite all the little gifts (triffid mulberries,grapes and odds and sods all plonked down everywhere in their own little parcel of fertilizer) not to mention the verandah railings covered in you know what ...I love my little friends.
2008 not far away now ,thinking about any resolutions yet?
Enjoy the pre Christmas vibe everyone,me I am going outside to look at that yellow thing trying to poke it's way through the clouds ...forcast for the next week rain and storms :) ha ha ha at least we aren't frying and boy will we enjoy the food for a change!
Ooops I forgot to say that the lilly pilly is an Australian native tree that produces marble sized (in this case purple) fruit that look like cherries,while ok to eat raw we like to make lilly pilly jam(you call it jelly). A very pretty thing both in flower and fruit.
Have a good one everyone
chrissy