Wow, there are such beautiful clouds in the sky with their grey and dark patterns, as we await the first good rain of the season here on the Gold Coast. I have been gardening today, and what fun it is. They are predicting wind gusts up to 50 mph with this storm and that is significant for us. We never know when a transformer will blow or wires will blow down leaving us in the dark. So we have our portable battery-powered lanterns out and ready to go. We have had more than our shares of power outages in the past. Keep your fingers crossed we will not have one this storm. It feels a bit cooler today for us in this mild climate. The hummingbirds have been feeding at the Sage since early this a.m. I looked out the window at 6:30 a.m. and sure enough, some were feeding at the Sage at that early hour. Hummingbirds have to eat several times a day as they use up so much energy hovering and flying. They are a beautiful bird as they flit about the garden.

I like to think this is an artist's sky, sketched across the sky with charcoal. The wind continues.