Dark and light skies

It rained overnight on Friday and it was another unusually cool morning Saturday with lots of dark clouds and a bit of rain. It began to clear a bit and the rain stopped around 8 am or so. Some blue started to appear mid morning so we went for a walk with John to the book store on "the strip". Still lots of cloud, some sun, but continuing very cool. No shorts or T shirt that day for me, though there were still a few die hards around in shorts and T-shirts.

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Stopped at the Costa Rica restaurant for hot chocolate, decaf "white coffee" and apple pie on our way home.

The afternoon improved and we had lots of clear skies and sun for much of it. Some terrific billowy white clouds in the later part of the afternoon. Still generally cool, about 14 C or so, but nice and warm in the sun.

Saturday evening we invited John, Jean and Jean's sister, Ev, for drinks and dessert during a fairly vigorous lightning, thunder and rain storm. It rained quite a bit off and on during the night and we wakened at about 6 am to a new major storm with lots of wind, rain, lightning and thunder - and as it got lighter and the sun began to influence things, there were some more interesting clouds formations.

We also woke this morning (Sunday) to water dripping from our bedroom ceiling! Not sure where it is coming from but there are a few areas along a crack where it is leaking. So, we are moving to a new room - this one on the top floor. The room is pretty much the same - the balcony is quite a bit smaller but the view of the ocean is much better.
Later some photo of the new view will find their way onto the blog, but not today. This is a day for sky photos.

The photo of the white billowy clouds is from Saturday afternoon. The next is this morning, Sunday, about 7 am and those following are all taken within the next hour. The last two looking west from our balcony, pretty much the same scene taken about 20 minutes apart - one before the sun poked through and one after with the sunlight on the buildings producing a major contrast to the dark sky in the west.

Once again the sky has pretty much cleared so we have a mix of sun and cloud. Hope the rain stays away as this is the first day of Canavale in Loulé. We are scheduled to go tomorrow but rain is predicted. We'll see.