Ah no, you caught me with my pants down.
I didn’t do enough research. 
I think one final question is doing an IMG src to an external storage
I have a link like this - https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/cdong-1b123.appspot.com/o/images%2Fphotography%2Fanimals%2FIMG_4763.jpg?alt=media&token=ef2804e2-c16c-4cd0-b4a6-df619dbb0db9
And I want to present that, do I need to pull my images to my local directory every time?
btw, thanks for building this - this is a great theme