Let there be light

Something strange happened this morning: a bright, round object rose in the eastern sky. We didn't know what it was so we were a bit frightened, but when we stood in the light that it cast, it was actually warming. Gretchen said she thought it might be something called the "sun"; she had heard that it appeared with some frequency other places (California, for example), but not here. Not only that, but no water was falling from the sky, which was a strange color highly uncharacteristic for these parts:



Luckily by this afternoon the sky was starting to return to its normal slate gray and the "sun" (if that's what it's called) was harder to find, although every now and then it reappears...