Winter has broken her icy grip on my part of Australia, though, we've still been getting regular rain. This means it will soon be peak solar power time, and I am so keen to run my air conditioner to bring winter inside (minus the rain) to the little world I call my house.

Because, with the amount of heat and sunlight we get during our summer, the air conditioner is an essential object of survival.

It is always incredible to discover new places so close to home that are completely foreign or a surprise. I am still discovering such places around my new house, and learning how the the almost different biomes (seperated by a few rolling hills, or a long, straight highway) go from beautiful valleys with meadows and trees, to endless scrubland, and if you go a bit further north, endless desert that actually looks like Mars, with no trees. :P

Then there's the vineyards to the North East, and the Ocean to the West, full of algae and toxicity (at the moment). The city to the South. It's all beautiful and unique in its own way.

You just gotta look closely at what makes an individual thing special.

My favourite place is the abandoned railway lines North West and North East of here. They might be reused one day, but there are trees and bushes growing out of the gaps between the old sleepers, and its a (to use modern kids' language) a vibe.