The rising sun

Our driftwood artist built a memorial to the victims of the Christchurch earthquake and set it in the estuary where the early morning sun could light up the red and black arms of the art-work and remind us all of how lucky we have been to be on safe ground here in the south.
Then Japan experienced its terrible series of disasters.
Now, the Canterbury figure bears a flag - red circle overlaid with the international nuclear symbol, on a white field, tattered and burned at the fringe.
When the sun comes up later this morning, I'll take a photograph and post it here.