The heat of summer in Brisbane

I live in a bayside suburb, for which I am very grateful. We had temps of 30C today and tomorrow it will be 34C. The western suburbs will be having temps of up to 41C. 

I love trees, trees create shade, also help with the breeze. Until a couple of weeks ago there were two large trees in the neighbours back yard, these trees gave us lovely afternoon shade in our back yard. There was a very large Silky Oak which shaded most of the back yard, and a Eucalyptus, or Gum tree as we call them here, which gave shade to my aviary. 

The neighbours decided to remove the trees!!!!! The heat has increased in my yard so much. I have had to create artificial shade for the aviary, and now I am told that the people at the back on the other side are going to remove another Silky Oak and two more Gums. It has upset me so much. We used to wake with the sounds of Lorikeets, sometimes very loud sounds, but now we have none in the morning. We occasionally still get some in the other trees in the afternoon, but those trees are coming down very soon. 

Here is a lovely sunset photo, taken through the trees. That beautiful Silky Oak doesn't exist anymore!