Nicole, Oh girl your Cal Sunset will be GORGEOUS with this heat along with your Divine... I am so jelous my sister lives in San Marino and was complaining that she was in the mid 90's yesterday, I had been at my plumie patch in the south bay and it was 72, windy and gorgeous and cool. I loved it but my plumies didnt. I hired this old Korean man that I was paying him to water my plumies and pick up old leaves and old blossoms last season, well I guess his English is not that good and he didnt understand when I told him not to water. Well the crazy watered all winter, even when it sprinkled. I have never ever had winter rot on any of my plumies and this year cause of the money grubbing, water happy crazy Korean man I have had a ton of rot. Water would accumulate in spaces between branches and the trunk and sit there in the cold and sometimes limited light and cause rot. I had to hack down one of my huge imported from Singapore plumies that was 7 yrs old because 70 percent of the branches had rot where the branches connected to the trunk. Today while I was at my patch and moving some plants I found my Barry Ng's True orange from Singapore and my Hawaiian flag plants, both huge, moving around in their pots. When I grabbed my True orange by the trunk to pick up the pot a second time the pot fell to the ground while I was still holding the True orange tree. There was little root system left and the bottom wood under the soil line was soft. I had to cut 1 ft of trunk away to get clean wood. I also cut down my Hawaiian flat as she was 4yrs old and when I got her she was alredy 4ft tall and multi tipped. With Hawaiian flag the only thing I oculd do is cut off her branches as the trunk was funky all the way to the top where all the branches were...so I will have a lot of Hawaiian flags now..lol I also think my Kimo may have issues also as she seems loose, I have had this one since 2002 so she is a big girl....would hate to have to cut her down also grrrrr.. Well Nicole put up some more pics and show us your intense, gorgeous colored blooms when you get more..Thanks for sharing..

I really enjoy the different moods that sunsets provide. They're kind of like women. Wildly unpredictable but in a terribly exciting and inviting sort of way. ;) Thanks for sharing your pics, Joan.

Sounds like fun. We might want to pick a date that will have fewer competing events for such picture taking time. New Year's Eve folks might have other things that are needing to take priority? Scheduling is usually half the thing on any group doing.

Nice! The bestest were when you & I were in Sanibel/Captivs Islands several years ago!!