What a difference a day can make.

The last full day here it rained. Not that much, maybe quarter of an inch. The wind may have changed as well. That evening we couldn't believe the skies. We could see them and there were clouds and blue patches and sun. It was like a whole new city. Carrie and I were snapping pictures left and right.

Here's a picture taken a couple days earlier. That's the sun trying to shine through the murk. Pretty sure there are no clouds or fog here, just the pollution. Barely enough sun to cast a shadow sometimes. The only way you could tell if there were clouds was by the general light level. No stars or moon could get through at all.



Before and after of roughly the same scene.



Blue skies on our last morning. Too bad it didn't rain the day before the Great Wall.