Fire Pics

Here are some pics of the way the sky looked yesterday from our front door. In the first, you can see how beautiful the sky was before it was covered with smoke. The second and third show later afternoon photos. Earlier in the morning the area shown in those photos was crystal clear, but because of being surrounded by fire, the smoke met and completely blanketed our mountains.

The wind has since died down so many of the fires are contained, but there is still a heavy smoke smell in the air.

The last two photos were taken last Saturday on a hike we took in Crestline, which is now under mandatory evacuations. Thankfully the fire hasn't hit there (you can see the pile of fuel for the fire in the picture with just Amanda and Tanner -- the trees in the background were cut down because of a bark beetle infestation), but it's really close. It's really crazy thinking of the entire place evacuated since we were just there.