The sunny day

Recently the sun was shining when we got up in the morning. This was rare enough to be slightly shocking. It’s normally gray most of the day, with perhaps a 1-5 hour window of sunshine, back to gray by the late afternoon.

I had been expecting lots of gray: I’d read something crazy like Lima gets 51 days of sunshine a year, and that those days only occur from December through March. Contrast that with one of my reasons for moving to Tucson in 1999: it had something incredible like 330 sunny days per year. (I’m making these numbers up from memory; they are definitely not exact!)

That day, however, was the first and only day in our nine weeks here that the skies were clear the entire day, morning till night. We even got a glimpse of the full moon that evening, always special to see.

In the late afternoon, Simon and I walked to the park overlooking the ocean; he rode his little car around while I saw a beautiful sunset. A paraglider sailed by above us; Simon immediately signed that he wanted to see more. 

Simon signing "more" as if I could summon another paraglider to sail by... you can just barely see it in the sky.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the several hours of sunshine nearly every day. But a full day of sun; that was nice. We’re looking forward to more sunlight - and the beautiful glow that it gives everything - as we get closer to this summer.