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An Ode to Autumn

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April 19, 2015 by pillionpassionista Leave a Comment

[A side note from the Pillion Passionista:

I know it seems like I’ve lost 2 whole seasons, with no posts published since Winter 2014. Rest assured that we have been riding. And that I have been blogging. Just not as much as I’d hoped, on either account…!

There are a bunch of partially-written posts sitting in my Drafts folder and I’m planning to refocus on getting them done. Just maybe not in strict seasonal order…

So if you’d like to know whenever I finish one, you can signup to my Pillion Post by popping your email address in the form at right.]

It’s April and Autumn in Sydney is making herself felt. Despite my sadness at the loss of long Summer days, I love this in-between time. So here is my ode to Autumn’s beauty.

Dear Autumn,

You are my favourite time of year to be on the back of a bike.

I relish your lack of extremes:

  • Your cool caress in the morning – without the need for bulky layers to protect me from Winter’s chill.
  • The warmth of your lowering sun, that makes wearing black head-to-toe not seem like insanity as it does in Summer.
  • I’m grateful for your blue skies, clear of the smoggy haze of hotter days.
  • And that your sweet scent of woodsmoke in the air signals the cosiness of home fires burning – not the fear of raging bushfires.

trees dressed in autumn colour

I love your colours:

  • The way you burnish trees in red and gold, warming my soul even as the cold descends.
  • The bug-attracting flowers of Spring may be gone, and there’s not yet the heady scent of Winter wattle, but you still delight with touches of brilliant purple tibouchina and hedges strewn with camellia flowers.
  • Oh, and did I mention your sunrises and sunsets? They’re the Best. Even if they do come too early in the day…

Sydney Harbour sunrise in Autumn

You’ve even inspired me to try a little Haiku:

Autumn brings colour

To riding, writing, cooking

And snuggling up . . .  ”

Filed Under: No ride Tagged With: autumn, Sydney

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The pillionpassionista is discovering the joy of being on the back of a motorcycle, one weekend at a time. She rides with her partner "Zorro" in Sydney, Australia - the greatest city in the world (at least when the sun is shining and the roads aren't clogged).

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Who am I? Probably not who you imagine. Nothing like the cliched 'bikie chick', certainly.

I grew up in the middle-class leafy north shore of Sydney, worked in the corporate world for many years, and left my mid-life crisis behind me some miles back.

When I tired of playing second fiddle to my beloved partner's beloved motorbike, I decided I wanted to be a part of his weekend road trips.

Not fancying the idea of learning how to ride, I took the easy rider option and hopped on the back.

Follow along as the pillionpassionista discovers the joy of being on the back of a motorcycle, one weekend at a time.

She rides with her partner "Zorro" in Sydney, Australia - the greatest city in the world (at least when the sun is shining and the roads aren't jammed).

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