Fires

 

Fires in my Hood

 

Since we last talked, a lot has happened. I should have held onto to June's bright blue skies. Why? Because shortly after July 4th the Western United States started to burn. One can't go outside because of the ash and particulates in the air. The husband and I were talking this morning how it doesn't feel like we've had any sunny days this summer. Of course, summer is a relative term: I'm talking August and September here.

I leave my gardening shoes outside on the deck and one morning I awoke to all this ash and burned pine needles inside them. 

 

This is the fire that is only 60 miles from my house. At the time of this photo it was only 30,000 acres burned. Now it is topping 111,000 acres and is only 27% contained.

And now a large fire in Wyoming and grown and crossed the Wyoming/Colorado border into Colorado. It has grown larger than the Cameron Peak fire. If they combine...