Late evening sky

This morning, Auckland was enshrouded by cloud, and misty rain alternating with heavy tropical like downpours. A few years ago (before the Body Corporate committee in our apartment building got the lift shaft properly sealed; it is an indoor lift put into an outdoor situation in the atrium of the building, by the developer in order to maximise his return) this sort of rain would have fused the lift mechanism with a cost of $25,000 and weeks to get the part from Australia. Even though we have had two or three years without problems, I can't help feeling tense when the rain buckets down.

I spent the day sorting my study (the spare bedroom) and that included making up the bed and truckle bed for when our son and his wife and two children come to stay; for one night on their way north. To where we are now, having come after the work traffic and in fine weather. The rain in Auckland rarely goes on for the days and days that England and Wales have suffered recently. And Scotland, I think.

I tried to take some photos to show how the mist and rain obscured the view, and expected that to be my blip. However, after we arrived here, the sun set behind heavy rain clouds, casting a subtle glow to the clouds in the east from here. Beyond Tawharanui peninsula the southern end of Little Barrier Island (Te Hauturu-o-Toi) can be seen; most of the island is obscured by low cloud (or high fog).