Water Tower Reflection in Hargeisa Alley Puddle

Soft overcast light falls through low-hanging clouds, casting a muted gray tone over the rain-soaked back alley in Hargeisa. A shallow puddle on the cracked concrete surface mirrors the dark silhouette of a distant water tower standing beneath the elevated train tracks. Metal beams of the railway stretch across the wet ground, their linear shadows intersecting with the distorted reflection. Small debris floats on the water's surface, breaking the mirror image into fragmented shards of steel and sky. Moisture rests on the damp pavement and darkens the edges of the alley walls. A jagged crack in the concrete near the puddle's edge catches the faint, diffused glow of the late afternoon sky.