Not raining — yet. The stripes of cloud banks are distinctive, though, one at the horizon and the other broad and thick overhead.  The sea takes on its steely look, the intrepid surfers apparently oblivious.

We saw whales out there again, where the water was flat and smooth and shiny.  The range of texture and the variation in lighting are amazing to me — and this is just a phone snapshot.  A better camera and lens would probably reveal more/other — but I don’t  enjoy using big equipment.  So this will suffice (neither fire nor ice, despite the continuing bad news.)  May the ocean and the predominance of good continue…