Washington State Wildfires, waiting to happen

The video below is not the best, but I think you can see what I mean when I explain. (play video at 1/4 speed) On Tuesday, we drove down to Mount Rainier, and we drove through miles of National Forest. Literally everywhere we drove, the forest floor was littered with downed trees, fragments of trees, …

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Photo Challenge A Significant Glow

This is the view from the deck of our vacation house in Bigfork, Montana, on September 7, the day after we got there from Washington.  You can't see much, due to the smoke from the terrible wildfires, that closed Glacier National Park, and prevented our group from doing most outdoor activities. And on September 10, …

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Seen through a window…at 60 miles per hour!

I have gotten pretty good at taking photos from the passenger-side windows of our car.  On our way to Montana and back, I shot these photos from the moving vehicle-I really wanted my friends to see what the air quality was, as a result of the wildfires in Montana and Eastern Washington. This was just …

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