What did the groundhog see in August?

On a winter afternoon this past August, the sun pushed aside the clouds and warmed the river in Henley Lake Park in the town of Masterton, near the southern tip of New Zealand's North Island. This picture is from a photo by A., in the Kiwi branch of the family.

A couple of days later, winter returned to that end of the earth, and up in the mountains above the city of Wellington a light snow briefly stopped traffic along the road through the Rimutaka pass

But that's all ancient history. Now that it's October, spring has come to New Zealand, and Henley Lake Park is all greened up.