the morning casting a gray coverlet upon the world beyond the window, a chill seeping in through the skin....a detour on the way back to the flat, the soft focus lens set to one...the railway just south of ruifan has been washed away in a landslide, so no trains down the east coast for a while, the area surrounding the town carrying a warning for more of the same...and yet it remains only in the north, the south and the east continue under drought, although the weather forecast at least allotted them a bit of cloud cover...