tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139161043677921966.post7383320920929739686..comments2023-11-24T17:22:49.598+11:00Comments on Sweet Wayfaring: Leafless 2Joan Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16358008925558240778noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139161043677921966.post-48422031754227164872009-07-18T05:26:21.711+10:002009-07-18T05:26:21.711+10:00Joan Elizabeth, there is definitely a difference b...Joan Elizabeth, there is definitely a difference between Northern, Middle and Southern Europeans - usually the Southern are seen as more relaxed and easy going. <br />For me I can say I am more weather influenced/dependend with getting older - more tired when it is dark and rainy, more alert when the sun is shining (but of course it seldom gets really really hot around here - but I thrive with >25 °C ;-))Martinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04771625000856319335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139161043677921966.post-19961200858928462202009-07-16T09:34:14.821+10:002009-07-16T09:34:14.821+10:00Martina, we do have weather variations across the ...Martina, we do have weather variations across the country but they tend to be more from hot to luke warm rather than cold. In some parts the seasons are deliniated as wet/dry because it's always hot. Certainly there's just a tiny part of Australia that gets winter snow. Even having a 'four seasons' climate is restricted to the southern half of Australia.<br /><br />Now to Julie's proposition. I think the weather does shape the type of life we are able to live. But does that in turn shape our personality? Up in northern Australia the climate is always warm, the people tend to dress in more casual clothes and live a more casual lifestyle. Business tends to be slower and perhaps more personal. But does that make them happier, friendlier, less gloomy or whatever ... I not sure.Joan Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16358008925558240778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139161043677921966.post-58942054423346320072009-07-16T06:05:51.944+10:002009-07-16T06:05:51.944+10:00Julie, but I assume there are many different clima...Julie, but I assume there are many different climates/regions in Australia too?<br /><br />As in Germany, the northern Germans are very different from the southern Germans (not to talk about the Bavarians, that are an entirely different people I guess ...) which differ from the Germans living at the Rhine River etc etc etc ... <br /><br />*Martina now thinking about how the climate might have influenced her character*Martinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04771625000856319335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139161043677921966.post-34871444155495356662009-07-15T12:29:42.832+10:002009-07-15T12:29:42.832+10:00I suspect that the weather landscape in which we l...I suspect that the weather landscape in which we live/grow up changes our essential character a lot. Could explain the out-going Australian character to some extent.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09513648613788716017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139161043677921966.post-81372250652454942132009-07-15T02:49:02.190+10:002009-07-15T02:49:02.190+10:00Hm, me, the Middle European living all my life wit...Hm, me, the Middle European living all my life with many long grey dark wet cool cold novembery (ha, did I invent this word?) months with leafless trees and bushes ... doesn't like leaflessness, naaa!<br />;-)Martinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04771625000856319335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139161043677921966.post-64878253884957392302009-07-14T23:37:12.441+10:002009-07-14T23:37:12.441+10:00Leafless and yellow! Easy to realize we are almost...Leafless and yellow! Easy to realize we are almost antipodes! :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15783877262954668959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139161043677921966.post-22821274010099764802009-07-14T08:40:59.695+10:002009-07-14T08:40:59.695+10:00I like it when we can tell the season has changed....I like it when we can tell the season has changed. I would hate to live in the tropics or their polar opposites!<br /><br />I wonder why this stand of trees was planted. Surely not for harvest: not enough of them.<br /><br />I like the aberdeen angus in the mid-ground. And Heaney ... what is it with Irish poets and the sensuousness of life.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09513648613788716017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139161043677921966.post-42058609194872514842009-07-14T07:46:40.853+10:002009-07-14T07:46:40.853+10:00I have a very strange feeling that I might be abou...I have a very strange feeling that I might be about to go mad over leaflessness. It is a wondrous thing for those of us who have been doomed to live among eternal green, or brown as the case may be.bitingmidgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12593806233011328620noreply@blogger.com