As I've written previously, we have a lot of smoke in the air due to the wild-fire burning nearby. The last few nights the sun has been a red ball in the sky. I tried to get out to photograph it before it went behind the smoke bank but I was just able to catch …
Day 253 – Fire Season Isn’t Over
I thought we were done with fire season for the year. The temperatures have gotten cooler, there haven't been any lightning storms . . . but I guess I was wrong. This fire developed very quickly today. At 11:00 this morning, there was no sign of a fire anywhere. By 1:00, it looked like the …
Day 230 – Too Close to Home
As I have been posting lately, it has been very hot and dry here the past few weeks. We have a threat of thunderstorms for the next couple of days and the Governor has declared a State of Emergency for the state of Oregon because of the wildfire threat. When we went out for our …
