Almost a sunrise this morning in Paradise Cove. That's right, sunrise. We're a cove within a bay and the bluff here faces east. Over at Point Dume, that's the sunset. We'll see the stained sky from here, see the clouds work their way from white to pink to rose to grey. But that's tonight. Here's how it looked on the bluff at 6:45 a.m.
Humans - quiet. Nature - loud. Crows going crazy in the eucalyptus trees, maybe recovering from the long, windy night, maybe just working out issues of hierarchy. Hummingbirds, cranky from the cold, screaming by on their way to flowers or feeders or just looking to warm up with a good fight. It's a medium tide with enough surf kicked up by a storm off the coast of Mexico to keep a steady rumble in the background. Unless that's the start of the morning commute on PCH. Or a bit of both.