Here is an update on the Telegraph fire from our local news. Not Good.
Telegraph Fire News from Sonora, CA
-P
Preston-Columbia CA
"If you want nice fresh oats, you have to pay a fair price. If you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through the horse; that comes a little cheaper."
For daily reports from our National Interagency Fire Center go here:
http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/nfn.htm
And as for smoke, I photograph near fires here in Alaska just for that effect on the sun and light. It can make for some beautiful light if one is distant enough from the fire to not be in danger. Like this image I took a couple years ago of smoke and sun.
Søren
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -Douglas Adams-
The aerial tankers have been flying out of the Fresno Air Attack Base all day fairly regularly.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
Have my fingers crossed for lots of folks in the path of that fire.
Two good sources of info for up to date status:
http://firefighterblog.blogspot.com/...threat-to.html
http://www.incidentfeed.com/index.ph...ntent&Itemid=2
I hoping for the best for my friends within the fires' reach. Nature will get over the scar, but the lives in harms way are precious.
"I knew this would happen after the glaciers melted and trees started growing there."
Do you mean millions of years ago?
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