Climbing into the car on the way to get groceries yesterday afternoon, I noticed a large smoke cloud directly overhead. Then from the street, it was a much larger smoke cloud. so instead of getting groceries, I turned around, went home and started packing and preparing for a fire to come through. It was a long night with phones blaring evacuation notices all… night... long. I don’t think anyone slept. By morning over 3,000 acres had burnt and more than 30 structures were lost. By this evening, 8,300 acres have burnt. Luckily, thankfully, amazingly, the wind has been blowing the fire away from us and we haven’t had to evacuate yet.

Acrylic on rock.

View from my driveway. Something is wrong.

View from the street. Something is very wrong.