Spring is both a pretty season and an 'inspiring' season. We've left winter behind (for the most part!), the weather is getting warmer and the days longer! And there's evidence of new life around the place, in both the animal and plant worlds.

August (officially the last month of winter) sees lambs being born on the farmland adjoining Tawa, and the first flowers in bloom. In September many gardens are ablaze with colour (including the Botanical Gardens in the central city - not featured here), yellow being prominent, particularly with kowhai trees and daffodils having 'sprung to life'. And it's October when blossom trees are at their glorious best, dotted here and there in local streets and several at Willowbank Park as shown below.

Spring in Wellington still brings some rain and lots of wind, but it's those warm sunny spring days which we get now and again that really make one feel good to be alive!