Lots of fires

Lots of fires hereabouts these days. Not much rain and lots of lightning make for a bad combination. And from what we hear, we made the national news – which says more about the media than it does about our little fire here

Here is the Flagstaff fire as seen from our bedroom window. This was… day before yesterday, late in the afternoon I think.

Here is a closeup of the Boulder ‘Flagstaff’ fire. It is several mountain ridges south of where we are. It is about 300, very prominent, acres on the top of one of our local and highly popularized mountain ridges.

This is smoke early in the morning [essentially sunrise] from the Fort Collin’s ‘High Park’ fire. This is a photo of the north eastern plains from my office window. That would be Boulder to the right and to the left would be Lyons and we are looking right in the direction of Fort Collins, more or less.

If you an see it, right above the horizon is a thick, almost solid, orange mass of smoke coming down from this big 87000 acre fire into the Boulder Valley on its way to Denver.