Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, they say
and all around me is grey.
The hills are obscured by haze
the acrid scent of it bites my nostrils
creates an ache in my throat, until
I want to go anywhere but here, where
there is fear of fires leaping valleys
razing the city. July in BC, seems to mean
burning bushes, without any sign of divinity.
Shawn L. Bird 
Got you guys on my list!
List?
I sense that B.C. is as prone to the ravages of summer as are California and the Mountain States, and why would it be otherwise? Oh, I wish it were otherwise- so many suffering, year after year, from Siberia, clear to Mexico.
I remember the occasional fire in my youth, but in the last 20 years it seems like they have been getting worse and worse. I don’t remember smoke filling the valley like happens regularly. Climate change in action, I presume.
Very scary stuff, never to be underrated.
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Oh how sad and it is scary!
Praying for rain…
Wish we could send you some of our rain. I hope you get some soon.
We actually had a downpour yesterday, without lightning!