We had some local forest fires in July & August that caused me to relive last year's experience all over again. It gives me anxiety just thinking about it. In case you don't remember, Salmon was filled with terrible smoke-filled skies last August & September that really affected our health and our lifestyles. Here's two links from blog posts then:
Thankfully, this year the smoke wasn't as bad as last summer, because the fires weren't as large as last year. Both of these were credited to the fact that we've received several rainstorms--which helped stop the rapid spreading of the fire and also cleared out the smoke from our skies. The biggest storm we got was this horrible hailstorm at the beginning of August:
We experienced the smokey skies throughout August, and heard/saw helicopters all day that were flying to assist the fires, and for two days at the end of August, we had ashes all over our deck and cars. I was so nervous for school to begin because I didn't want to have indoor recess for weeks on end like we did last fall--when the students and the teachers all went stir-crazy! Due to several scattered rainstorms at the beginning of September, my fears weren't realized, and we have not had to have indoor recess at all due to the smoke (just once because of the rain instead!), for which I am SOOO grateful!
But those really bad smokey days at the end of August sure made for some pretty skies. The red sun, the red moon, and the beautiful sunsets were so marvelous to behold! So I took advantage of the opportunity to capture the red--which my camera does no justice for the real views we saw.
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