We have fires to our East and had to close up the house last night to try and keep the smoke out. I don't recall ever doing that before.
The country is so dry, it is burning terribly. Keep your fingers and toes crossed for some rain!
It does look dry, hope you get rain soon. We have had a couple of mm rain over the last couple of days but hot and dry again today. Luckily at the moment we haven't had any fires too close to where I live but because the fires up and down the east coast have been so bad the smoke from them has travelled down to here. We have had windows and doors closed often over the last couple of weeks because the smoke has been so bad. Dreading what it will be like in summer.
You've shown the dryness so well - our place looked the same until yesterday - 30mm since then and it's a different look entirely. I hope some comes your way! :)