Skywatch Friday

Adelaide 3rd May 2019

........ and then it rained!

Adelaide has had very little rain since December 2018, so the rain is very welcome.

 "Send it down Huey!"   Australian phrase uttered in response to the onset of rain. It was in very common usage in the early 20th century, but is less common now. 
Saint Hugh of Lincoln, a saint long traditionally associated with rain, as attested in Thomas Dekker's 1600 play The Shoemaker's Holiday:

"Cold's the weather, and wet's the rain,
Saint Hugh be our good speed,
Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain,
Nor helps good hearts in need."

Pomegranate is doing well

Despite the lack of rain my garden has survived the heat of summer.

Grevillea 

Australian Woolly Bush