Fire!

To look at my blog titles lately, you might wonder what's happening to my fall. Actually, I thought it was going pretty much as usual until this afternoon when a boatload of firetrucks went wailing past on a nearby road. When I ran outside, here's what I saw:










I'll probably post more about this tomorrow when some more facts are available, but for today we're thankful for safety, that the wind didn't shift the fire our way, for the many firefighters across the state that responded, and for the fact that no homes were lost in this fire so far (one was lost in a sister fire just down the valley but none in this fire). The hills are still glowing tonight and the fire has burned about 600 acres.