The Flying Gazebo and The Survivor

San Diego California was hit with a strong wind storm, and plenty of rain, over the weekend. We got a call from our neighbor who told us our gazebo was no longer on our second story deck. About 12x12 feet with 4 sturdy metal legs and a fabric covering, with 40 mph gusts, it had "left the building".

I found it crushed against the bank at the side of our house. Miraculously it had cleared the deck railing, the stairs and blown around the corner of the house missing a sliding glass door and two picture windows. It was trashed, but the only damage to the house was a 3" long scrape on the deck's railing.

As I cut the fabric away, a hummingbird buzzed around my head. Peering into the bush against which the gazebo rested, I found this:

He/she survived both the storm and the flying gazebo. ~B