It's very quiet here today. Mist is drifting in veils through the trees in the ravine. Everything smells of the sea. At some point the sun will burn through, the birds will shake themselves awake, and the neighbours will start hammering and mowing, but right now, this is like a morning from Long Ago. Lovely.
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Wow. Worlds away.
ReplyDeleteIt looks sorta misty/foggy here, but it's not mist - it's thick smoke. The fires here in my neck of the woods in LA are getting oppressive. The air is like living in the middle of a campfire. 1000's have been evacuated and over 10,000 homes are listed as threatened.
It's weeks like this that I wonder -- what (WTF!) am I doing in LA?
For those of us in SoCal I don't think it's too hard to imagine The End of America will be from #103. Wildfires...
Glad you are worlds away.
Mist and smoke always makes me feel like that. It's a bit like that here today, all socked in with clouds. Not quiet though. Neighbors talking, shower running, tunes blaring.
ReplyDeletejennifer, Smoke always makes me think of autumn. (What's autumn like in SoCal? Is it noticeable?) Glad you're not in any danger.
ReplyDeletessas, I'm really enjoying this peaceful moment, it's like time out of time...
Why does smoke make you think of autumn? Burning leaves? Fire in the fireplace?
ReplyDeleteOne can see a change of seasons here, but it requires careful attention. We really see fall-like signs in what is closer to winter for most. There are some trees that change color in Dec., and it definitely gets cooler in mid-Oct to Dec. For about 5 minutes it is a lovely cool temp, but then it turns to (what is our) winter cold. Not much in between.
I am under this big cloud of smoke.
Blimey. That's serious smoke.
ReplyDeleteAutumn and smoke: bonfires. In the UK, in cities, it's mostly illegal to burn anything indoors. (Most people use North Sea gas for heating, and cooking.) Hardly anyone barbeques. So smoke means an autumn bonfire to burn all the leaves and the shrubbery prunings. And then of course there's bonfire night, on Nov 5th...
We used to burn leaves and stuff too when I was a kid in TN.
ReplyDeleteFunny they still have bonfire night after all these years. Any excuse for a good pagan bonfire sounds good.
Yep, it's serious stuff. Here's another photo someone took in Pasadena last night. I'm at the northern edge of Pasadena - Altadena really. I'm up there closer to the hills than this person was.
And I put a couple from my house up in our gallery. I was totally socked in this morning, but it has cleared some in the past couple of hours. The big cloud of smoke visible to the northwest from my house a yesterday has spread way east to directly north and northeast of me.
See what I mean about apocalyptic? It's good to be reminded this is only local. Although it's not just in LA - the whole Southwest is in a dangerous fire position with triple digit weather and super low humidity. I wonder how Jean is doing up in her firetower.
Those gallery photos do have an apocalyptic feel. There should be a movie-trailer voice intoning 'A Sunday in Southern California, just an ordinary day, until Something began to dim the sun..."
ReplyDeleteYou got it.
ReplyDeleteNice
ReplyDeleteIt was nice. And even when the sun burned through the temps stayed mid-70s.
ReplyDeleteThis morning it was misty again. Even when the sun came through, it was misty on the sound: we were hearing foghorns until just an hour ago.
Smoke can look pretty intense, for sure: that billowing suggestion of heat in progress. Jennifer d, I just finished my season at the fire lookout. When I was turning in the keys and radio on Saturday some of our engine foremen were excited to be gathering up their crews to head to California. Lots of good people doing hard work out there...Jean r
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