Red sky in the morning

An eerily still day today, without a speck of dust in the air to interfere with the view. Every rock and tree on the mountain chain as far as Table Mountain was visible in sharp detail, even without the aid of binoculars. The absence of sunshine left no shadows or contrasts and everything seemed magnified.

 As the day passed, high clouds darkened and a steady rain fell, and then the sun burst through, as is normal in Cape Town, towards late afternoon, just to let us know it was still there. Mist crept up the mountain slopes, still bare after the fires of summer, but rapidly gaining a carpet of green, defining the kloofs and gullies - a smoke without fire.

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With a sunrise like this the day before, it should have come as no surprise!