Cloudy with frequent showers; strong southwest.

Some morning sun bathed the garden in a soft light today. It didn’t last. Fern leaf #2. Shot with iPhone4, edited with Pixlr Express.

For inhabitants of a land which is seldom subject to any real extremes of weather, we New Zealanders are oddly obsessed with it. Perhaps is part of our British colonial legacy — weather provides a topic of conversation that permits polite interaction without the risk of straying into contentious territories.

Of my home city, Auckland, it is said that we often experience “four seasons in a day.” Today has been one of those days; warm and humid, grey and windy, cold, bursts of sunshine. Not a day for venturing far without a raincoat and strong hair-clips to hold wayward fringes in place.

I’ve chosen not to venture anywhere much at all. This morning I wandered around the garden, noting how much the lawn has grown and weeds have invaded. I toyed with the idea of clearing some overgrown ferns on the boundary, but decided to photograph them instead, before retreating back indoors.

Then the rain returned and the world felt grey. Fern leaf #2. Shot with iPhone4, edited with Pixlr Express.

After the rain, everything seems greener. Fern leaf #2. Shot with iPhone4, edited with Pixlr Express.

An emotional, rather than physical landscape is represented today. Fern leaf. Photo: Su Leslie, 2015. Shot with iPhone4, edited with Pixlr Express.

It’s evening now; and perhaps the wind will drop soon. Fern leaf #2. Shot with iPhone4, edited with Pixlr Express.

Music often uses the weather as a metaphor. I’ve always quite liked Crowded House’s Four Seasons in One Day and Take the Weather With You.

This post was written for the weekly Phoneography and non-SLR Digital Devices Photo Challenge at Lens and Pens by Sally.