It's santana season and, despite the dodge and feint of recent rains, the winds are here, howling.

Blew hard all night and the cat is cranky and the dogs are nuts and humans here are bleary-eyed from a night of skimming above sleep. So here's today's sunrise:

Morning clouds churned to a blur:

A pelican hunting:

And there, always in view when these desert winds visit, downtown LA: