Forest fires have been wreaking havoc on everything in north central Washington for the last two weeks. Most were started by a lightning storm that roared through the region the night of September 8. One was human caused. For a few days our area was spared the heavy smoke but that soon changed and this has been a common late afternoon sight, if we get to see the sun at all. Official air monitoring by the state has listed our air as ‘unhealthy’ for the last few days. It could be worse. In Wenatchee and Cashmere, it has been ‘hazardous’. The good news is that the hard-working fire fighters are starting to get a handle on most of the blazes with strong lines built by hand and machine and with the help of many aircraft. Some of the interior parts of the fires will burn til the snow falls. And there is no precipitation in sight.
This image is from last Friday. I was photographing a wedding at Sun Mountain Lodge.
Photos from the wedding will be posted at my other blog before the end of the week.
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Kind of what it looked like here in the Basin. We also had a covering of ash last Thursday; yesterday I finally washed off our deck, patio, patio chairs & driveway – dirty stuff!
We haven’t had the ash yet, knock on wood. Everything is covered with fine sooty dust though.