Thursday, July 10, 2008

The View Outside My Front Door

~I actually have this on my sci-fi blog too. The smoke is so overwhelming that it's all I can post about right now...

Okay, I have to do it. The smoke here has been crazy today. I tried to take some pictures while out driving, but it's hard to drive and take pictures-- and I don't recommend trying. So the picture here is the best I could do. I don't know if you can tell how hazy it is, but let me tell you this. It was about 2:30 in the afternoon when I took the picture and about 103 degrees. We have no clouds in the sky-- just smoke. It kind of looks like a cloudy winter day.

The other picture you see here is right off my front porch. I took it at about 7:30 in the evening. I was hoping to catch a really red sun today, but it wasn't as bright as it has been on other evenings. Normally though, you wouldn't be able to look directly at the sun, especially as it was just going down. But this shot is just as it looked from the naked eye.

I wish blogs came with smell-o-vision so you could smell the smoke too. It smells like I'm directly in the path of a campfire.

I promise. This will be my last smoke related post.

Just pray there are no floods or earthquakes in my future.

7 comments:

Empress Bee (of the high sea) said...

oh dear, that looks like florida earlier this year! awful and i know the smell well! stay safe honey...

hugs, bee
xoxoxoxoxoxoxxo

Steve Malley said...

Heyyyy... this post looks strangely familiar....

Hope a gentle wind shifts that stuff off you soon.

Glamourpuss said...

Blimey. Is that, er, normal?

Puss

dmarks said...

On a lark, I clicked on my own J V Jones profile link, and found a bunch of other fans. You were the first on the list, so hi!

pussreboots said...

I don't need smell-o-vision. I've got a similar smoky view and aroma outside my door.

Anonymous said...

Doin a rain dance here for ya.

Jocelyn said...

I hope you have no respiratory problems related to this! Every year, I say, "If the West is on fire, you know it's summer." I grew up in Montana, where all the summer newscasts are dominated with how many hundreds of thousands of acres are on fire.

Hang in there. Don't breathe deeply.