A Canberra Year — Week One — 1 to 7 January

See Canberra each week, as someone who lives here sees it.

This is the first in a series of articles — 52 of them — which are more photo essays than anything else. Each shows you Canberra at that week of the year. The photos are all mine — images I have taken over the last twenty years. Most are of nature and my surroundings, because Canberra is a city full of nature, even at its heart. Sometimes there are scenes where you might see a building or two, or a street, but I am not so focussed on people and what they build…

So — here is Canberra, in the first week of January — our mid-summer here in the Southern Hemisphere.

Australian Native Flowers.

Roses are everywhere

Natural watercourses and wetlands run into mulriple lakes, scattered throughout the city. That is a black swan cygnet — about three months old, so almost adult sized, but still in its grey baby plumage.

I love the detail of flowers, especially after rain

eucalypt trees all have amazing bark

Canberra is a wine growing area, as well as a city of flowers

yet more amazing flowers

Cloudscape are often spectacular here, as the city sits in a number of valleys, surrounded by mountains.

yes, that blue sky is real. In summer, on a clear day, our skies are that colour.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this view into the first week of January in Canberra — look out for the rest of the photo essays in this series — coming soon.

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