(This is a picture that my father took of the 2003 Paradise Mountain fire coming towards their house – the puff of black smoke is probably from a burning structure, maybe a vehicle. The rest of the pictures on that roll of film were of the house interior – to document for the insurance company.)
Reading the news about the fires burning near Colorado Springs revive memories of what it was like, when I was growing up in the hill country the hill country of Southern California. Then it would be hot and dry all summer long, the green grass of spring would turn gold, the chaparral the native brush would dry out . . . and then . . .