Dripping and pouring

The sky was gray and everything was wet.  I don't know when the rain stopped but the humidity was so high that no water had evaporated.  The regulars visited the feeder along with punk squirrels with wet fur.  Bees came to the sunflowers.  Here, a honeybee flew in to join two fat carpenter bees.  Why is this sunflower dark when the other is yellow in the center? 

K saw a fox on the lower patio but it didn't wait for me.  At lunch, a small skink rushed along the steps.  A brown thrasher sneaked into the camellia with food.  And then the heavens opened and stayed open.  Inches of water fell.  I hope the rain fattens the blueberries because otherwise it is wasting daylight savings.  Tomorrow is predicted to be the same. 

Toward evening the rain grew light and the hungry birds returned. We were lucky - out at the Oceanfront, there was considerable wind damage.