La Lluvia

Finally it has rained in Puerto Montt! After an abnormally dry year thus far, things are once again set aright. On Thursday it was very overcast with part clouds, part smoke and ash from the Volcano Chaiten that has been doggedly blowing north.


There was a hint of rain all Thursday, but mostly a tearing wind that buffeted to and fro. Friday the wind brought sporadic bursts of rain with it, as if the clouds parted with it painfully. I was hoping all afternoon to evade the imminent downpour long enough to get to ballet, and thankfully succeeded. In the evening the clouds finally unleashed their weightily burden upon the parched earth with much ferocity.

Coming home, I had to wait a full half hour for my bus under the eaves of a building by the road, and got thoroughly chilled. The rain was beautiful though, as it fell in enormous, shiny drops that burst on the street in clean splatters. The street lights were framed in auras of kaleidoscopical drops of rain, rain, rain.