From the Window

I'm sitting at Will's laptop early in the morning, staring out the window.  Busy white passenger ferries and heavy-laden cargo ships are already at work; and a fishing trawler is chugging under the weight of dragging nets.  It's too early for the sailboats that are docked in a marina tucked at the base of a mountain across Guanabara Bay--toothpick masts await bright white sails and a good breeze.  Large, graceful sea birds are the only thing sailing on the wind, at least on their own power.  In the distance, Christ the Redeemer seems to be blessing each bright jet plane as it ascends from take-off through the smoggy gray horizon.

This bayfront view is always in motion, even when you can't see the action on the beach at its edge.  Over the past 6 weeks I've taken some pictures from the window of apartamento #1102.  Want to see?

Something's always happening on the beach.
This Saturday there was a vendor carrying a huge net filled with beach balls.

Reminds me of the movie UP!
Only these are balls, not balloons.

Praia de Icarai is always colorful.

 One Saturday Cecilia called me to see the boat party happening out the window.

Perhaps a pre-Carnaval Party

All the watercraft floated in a group
while beach-goers enjoyed the live band onboard.

 Daniel and I had a date in the rede yesterday, and while he slept on my chest, I took some pictures of the late afternoon sun playing on the mountain outside our window.

Love the way the sun is playing on this lime-green foliage.

Bright and Shadow

Looks like a Giant poured a big bucket of bright color from the top
and it rolled down the side of the mountain.

And what's a Bay without sailboats?

Smooth Sailing

Sugar Loaf and the Bay

Blue and White

Hope you enjoyed looking at the view from the window!

With love--the Gringa