For some reason, which has been explained to me but I’ve forgotten*, it is commonplace in Australia to mark the seasons on the first day of certain months rather than equinox and solstice. Accordingly, 1 March is widely regarded as the first day of autumn. In fact, mild days are likely to continue well into April but it was wonderfully warm today and I decided to make the most of it by dyeing some specific colours for a project I have in mind. As is often the case, one of the best results was the piece of fabric I pleated up at the end to use up what was left of the dye solutions. The fabric is actually lemon-lime colour so this photograph is not true but you can see the striations:

* One story making the rounds is that the NSW Corps, upon first European settlement in Sydney Cover, changed from its summer to winter uniform on the first of March and from its winter to its summer uniform on the first of September. The starting dates for the other seasons followed this.