Thursday, 29 May 2025

Grey, grey and more grey

 

Photo taken in Mount Maunganui 5 years ago

Our skies here in Greymouth seem to be never ending grey at the moment. Winter officially begins on 1st June and out of the last 2 weeks, we have probably had 1 partly sunny day. I've started taking my winter gloves to work and last week our new neighbour (who works at a sawmill) gave us a trailer load of large logs for the fire - very grateful for our neighbours.

Linking up with Skywatch Friday and Tom's signs.

18 comments:

local alien said...

A grey day in Greymouth lol. Perfect day for a pie and coffee!

local alien said...

Except that offer was in Mount Maunganui. Never mind. It will have to be a Greymouth hot pie and hotter coffee.

Tom said...

...it's raining here again today!

roentare said...

It sounds like winter is settling in quickly, but how wonderful to have kind neighbours and a warm fire to ease the grey days.

Marie Smith said...

The diminished daylight and grey days can make winter depressing.

DB Stewart said...

Grey gets sad after a while. Sigh. Hoping for a sunny winter for you, if that's possible; sunshine is very common in Winter where I live, in Northwestern Canada. It helps.

magiceye said...

Nice capture!

Tigger's Mum said...

What valuable neighbours! Nephew cut down a eucalyptus for neighbours while he was here (his profession is arborist) avoiding damage to shed and greenhouse - and none of the firewood came this way. He also pruned some flowering cherry and I got one bit for carving wooden spoons.

Iris Flavia said...

That time of the year, winter, I find depressing. In our winter we at least have Christmas lights that help a bit for a while. Do you celebrate Christmas in July? You could decorate early and cheer people up.

s.c said...

Great streetshot and nice all those trees on the street.

Jan K. alias Afanja said...

After a long and dry period we are having some rain again this week. It's very welcome.

Bill said...

It's raining here today too.

Photo Cache said...

The cafe special looks like a good deal.

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Spare Parts and Pics said...

I would have a hard time with all that grey, but a muffin and coffee sound good!

Light and Voices said...

You are blessed with caring neighbors.

Klara said...

yap, that's Brussels' sky most of the time (grey, grey and again gray ;-)

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

Nice neighbor! Nothing like having a big stack of firewood as winter comes on! (I remember this from our "previous life" in Oregon when we had wood heat

Yogi♪♪♪ said...

I love reading how it is going to be winter where you are and it is heating up quickly here in Oklahoma, USA

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