A red sun rises... blood has been spilled this night.

This morning I went outside, and the sky was covered in a cloud of smoke. It looked like it was foggy everywhere, except it was all smoke. It smelled like fireworks. And then I looked up and saw the red sun.

Now it's not nearly as smoky anymore. I'm not sure how the entire sky got covered with smoke, or how it disappeared, but now it's just smoky in the north again, like it's been for the past 4 days.

I can see the smoke from my window

This is the closest I've ever been to a fire. Now the picture above doesn't look too bad, but that fire is like a couple of miles away and spreading all over the hills. The picture below is the same view as the one above:

So yeah, closest I've ever been, and closest I'd ever care to be. The air's difficult to breathe. Just walking down the street to take these pictures last night took the breath out of me... Natural disasters are the most devastating and yet beautiful things. Funny how that is.