Good Morning

Good Morning

  8/14/26 5:15 58F (14.4 ) AQI 94 It is a dark, still morning. It smells of smoke. The days are noticeably shorter now, and take longer and longer to get started. No stars can be seen, falling or stationary. I sit here in the haze, sipping my tea and watching the...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  8/13/26 6:45 56F (13.3C) AQI 84 smokey, no wind. Smoke has returned to the valley. I can see it, I can smell it and I can taste it. Just out of sight, beating propellers announce the passage of aircraft, probably water bombers behind the ridge. There was a fire...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  8/12/26 5:45 62F (16.6C) AQI 32 The sky is hazy blue in the dull light of dawn.  It is calm and windless, smelling faintly of smoke. Good morning.                                ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  8/11/26 7:45 62F (16.6C) AQI 64 Clear blue sky with a faint odor of burnt plastic. A white cloud of smoke sits low on the SE horizon, beyond the canyon rim. There is no breeze. I got up late this morning. The sun is up. Walter  barked beyond my endurance,  so...
Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon

8/11/26 The wind being favorable and the wildfire smoke having abated, Walter, Mike and I decided to spend the day by a stream in the woods. We arrived late morning and found we had the place to ourselves. Except for Cocaine Bear. Quickly retrieving our bear guns, we...