The Next Word

Southern California is trying to kill us again.

It does this on a fairly regular basis, but it's really making the extra effort this time around.

We've got many miles, several man made firebreaks in the form of highways, and lots and lots of burnable real estate between us and the fires, but smoke is in the air, again, ash is on the leaves of the trees, again, and from my porch I can see a smoke plume that stretches from due north on the horizon to somewhat south of west-south-west. A smoke...