Oh. Okay.

[serai]

.

What Bill and Ted said.

The road to the post office leads out of the little hilly are where I live, so I just got a look at the sky to the north and east, which I cannot see from my house.

Gondor? Yeah, Gondor.

The sky here looks the way it must have looked there when Sauron was just kick-starting shit up again. The smoke is running in a river out of the gap between the San Gabriel and the Santa Monica Mountains, from southeast all the way across about a third of the sky northwestwards. It's orangey-brown, not dark smoke - yet - but it is wow. The light is a sunset color even though we're three hours or so away yet. I'm sure it'll be spectacular.

And when I left the house to go out, I smelled the smoke for the first time. I can't smell it now because I've gotten accustomed - it wasn't that strong to begin with - but that's there now as well. The air is hot and dry and still here.

Comments

[aina-baggins.livejournal.com]

God, how scary. I remember just driving past an area swamped by bushfire like that and feeling sure the whole world must be burning from the colour of the sky. It must be terrifying having it so close to where you live. Hang in there.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

It's isn't actually close to here at all. We're at least fifty miles away from the southern fires, which tells you how big they are. Just about the distance from Minas Tirith to Mordor, come to think of it. ;)