An Autumn Night in Wellington City

23 March 2018

The temperature is now in its low 20s. Night still comes late though and there's yet enough light to brighten the night sky but the city is already lit by street lights laden with the chemical sodium which creates the orange color and is more than ready to welcome the dark night. In a matter of weeks, the temperature will start going down to just a little above 10 degrees Celsius on its way to winter. Soon the foliage will turn brown and eventually trees will shed their leaves.

Autumn in New Zealand may not be as spectacular a sight as its counterparts in the northern hemisphere but the charm of this littlest and coziest capital city in the world is no less captivating.

* what you see is what I see



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