Photo Post: A glimpse of sunshine

You may have heard that Rio (and several other states in Brazil) was hit hard by rain last week. There was massive flooding which left at least 2 dead and more than 4,000 displaced.

Well I’m happy to report that we had a completely dry (and in fact sunny!) weekend. And this morning I woke early to find that the sun was still shining. In fact the sun looked like it was doing its best to squeeze its way out from under a layer of dark cloud that had shown up over night.

There wasn’t much space, but the sun managed to find a sliver of clear sky.

I’ve lost count of the number of sunrises I’ve watched from my bedroom window. The components are always the same – sun, Sugarloaf, Guanabara Bay, some clouds – after a while you wonder if you’ve seen them all. Then something totally different shows up!

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After 10 minutes the sun moved up into the cloud, but the scene was still pretty nice.

I’ve been trying to work which island that is – looking at the map I think it must by Ilha do Pai.

A serene start to the week.