He stepped off the plane into a blast of dry, winter air—but it was 22°C (72°F). “Where’s the snow?” he asked his Aunt Chloe, who was waiting in flip-flops and sunglasses.
For Liam, everything was upside down.
felt strange. The heat finally broke, leaves turned rusty red and orange—but not on oaks. On eucalypts . And instead of a slow, sad end, it was a harvest. Apples, pumpkins, and walnuts filled the markets. “This is our autumn,” Aunt Chloe said. “We’re saying goodbye to heat, not to light.” season months australia
arrived, and he waited for the crisp autumn leaves to fall. Instead, jasmine vines exploded with white flowers, magpies swooped in the park, and the air smelled of wet earth. “This is spring,” Aunt Chloe explained, planting tomatoes. “Time for new life, not decay.”
came. Back home, it would be Christmas snowmen and hot cocoa. Here, he wore board shorts, grilled prawns on the beach, and a man in a Santa hat rode a surfboard past him. “Happy Christmas, mate!” people yelled under a scorching sun. It was summer. The jacaranda trees were blooming purple, and the days stretched hot and lazy until February. He stepped off the plane into a blast
By , Liam had been there a full year. He sat by a crackling outdoor fireplace, wrapped in a hoodie, watching the Southern Cross glow in the clear, cold sky. It was winter. No snow, just crisp mornings, mist over the mountains, and the shortest day of the year.
Liam smiled, tossed another log on the fire, and whispered, “Best backwards year ever.” felt strange
December = beach. July = bonfires. September = baby animals. March = golden light.