hot in autumn?

The weather lately has been odd. Being in the Southern Hemisphere, we are one month into Autumn. Now, in Autumn you expect the temperature to drop, to be below 25 degrees celsius or some such. But here, we have just had two days of 30+ degrees celsius - in AUTUMN!! I think of Autumn as the season where the leaves change colour, and the temperature drops.. not as the season when some days are warmer than in summer. The good thing is, the warmth (which I hate; cool weather is my thing) has given me an excuse why not to venture outside and thus take photos around the house of various bits and pieces.

"to dare every day to be irreverent and bold. to dare to preserve the randomness of mind which in children produces strange and wonderful new thoughts and forms. to continually scramble the familiar, bring the old into the new juxtaposition." -- gordon webber