I came across an interesting artefact of Google Earth's street-view data gathering. At the junction of the R560 and the R563 in Gauteng Province near the border with North West there's a corner we used to turn east on, when we were going to the Sappers Club in Skeerpoort on holiday. On Google Earth, they took the images for the north-south R563 in summertime; but the footage for the east-west R560 was taken in winter.
At that latitude and altitude, winter is cool and dry, while summer is hot and wet (you hope!). The summer pictures show lovely wet soil, heavy cloud and thick, green grass and leafy trees. The winter, cloudless, dusty skies, with the roadside dry sand and the grass dry and yellow, the trees bare and bristling with thorns. These two pairs of shots show the seasonal differences in stark contrast.
Summer time:
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