As I mentioned yesterday, we have a lot of smoke in the air due to regional forest wildfires. The closest fire is about 75 miles from us and is now 56,000 acres. I took these photos of the sunset last evening. The mountains aren't visible until the sun starts to set behind it and then …
Wildfire Season
Wildfire season had an early start on the high desert yesterday with the Cougar Butte wildfire. This is the earliest wildfire I've seen since we moved here 16 years ago. They haven't stated the cause of the fire yet, but being that we had a lot of snow this year, a cool, wet spring, and …
Smoky Sunset
This is another photo taken Wednesday evening when I was out taking photos of the moonrise and the hawk. The "clouds" in the photo are coming from the wildfire that started that afternoon. Since then, a couple of other fires have started in the area but have been quickly contained. Unfortunately, they believe the several …
Fire Danger
Summer in central Oregon is generally very warm and very dry. We haven't had any precipitation in several weeks, and as you can see, we don't anticipate any precipitation for the next two weeks. This makes the fire danger very high. We've been very fortunate so far this summer and haven't had very much fire …
Wildfire Update
The wildfires that I posted about last Saturday (you can see that post here) is now about 80% contained. Â A third wildfire started under suspicious conditions on Tuesday but they were able to put that out right away. This is a photo of the sun covered by smoke plumes that I took last Saturday. Â It …
Through My Lens 