I'd rather fight 100 structure fires
than a wildfire.
With a structure fire you know
where your flames are
but in the woods,
it can move anywhere.
It can come up
right up behind you.
...Tom Watson
Sometimes wildfires can make for a beautiful sky, sun and moon due to the particulate matter in the air. Best on Black.
Major wildfires have been burning in California and the entire west coast for over a month...from the Oregon border to the border of Mexico.
August 2020 brought a lightning siege of 14,000 dangerous dry lightning strikes and 1100 wildfires. So far, the fires have burned 3.2 million acres this year. My heart breaks and every year it gets worse. Climate change is real.
From 2010-2017 California was parched in an epic drought...one of the most intense droughts in California history. Trees have been dying en masse for years and has affected over 163 million trees between the lack of water and the bark beetle.
Yosemite National Park has temporarily closed due to hazardous air quality from the wildfires...and National Forest lands have been closed to public access due to the wildfires. Unhealthy to hazardous air quality is everywhere.
I’m so sorry for your state, the fires have been so awful. My SIL from Montana has sent photos of the smoke there, it’s from California, because the Montana fires were out.
Fabulous shot and edit.