@HenryX I'm in Central Victoria in farm country.  I seem to be in a spot where rain falls all around us but never actually on us.  We can often even see the rain falling on the horizon but it just never wants to come here.  We are at the foot of a mountain and we think that is what moves the rain on in a different direction.  We don't have a solitary stalk of green grass right now but it will be lush and verdant again in a few months time.  And I don't mind the green of the gum trees and gold rolling hills, very Aussie.

Here's one of our dams taken a few weeks back.  It's even drier than this now.