Hello, Rainy Season--it's been so long!

While stopping to shoot this awesome skyline between Joal and Sambadia, Senegal

we barely made it to cover from this sudden sandstorm

that felt straight out of The Grapes of Wrath:

which was followed by the most glorious storm of cool rain

that left one soaked but somehow smiling:

 

In Senegal, someone is considered blessed if the first rains of the season fall upon them!

It had been nine months since 

I had felt the wonderfulness of rain in Senegal