My Everyday Photos

Pictures below are what remains after the Rising Eagle Road fire. It’s been nine days since it happened and we have been on a roller coaster of emotions. Elated that our house survived and is intact. In despair over losing 2/3 of the bee hives. Happy that our well did not get fried and that we have a generator to run it and keep things wet and green as much as possible. Saddened over every little lost thing we notice each day. Really happy that our insurance company is being easy to work with. We are sorry for people who have not had such results with the bureaucracy.

We think the fire fighters on the ground and in the air are the best and we are forever grateful to them. The utility workers who replaced burned up poles and strung the wires and fiber while working sixteen hour days without complaint are another set of heroes.

And we are deeply saddened by the tremendous loss of homes on the hills around us and also in other locations around the Methow Valley.

Our address sign needs a new post

We never knew we had so many rocks

Nails from the neighbors’ garage

Remains of a remote camera

Our dog cemetery – hard to believe it used to be shaded by pine trees and serviceberry

Sam’s tag

The deer are very nervous

Fire fighters returned for days to put out the remaining smokes

A single Chipping Sparrow. Normally I’d see at least two together

Killer trees?

Fire truck from Johnson County Kansas

Remains of a vacation home

I put up feeders for the birds

I’ve found several dead rubber boas – a gentle snake that lives underground for the most part

Guess what this was

Melted glass

The day after the fire a tremendous wind blew through here and toppled trees

This used to be the tiny path we walked daily. The utility workers used it to repair the power lines.

Our house in an island of green surrounded by a blacked landscape

The hummingbirds are still here. I am surprised.

Only two bee hives where Ken once had six

Wasps eat the remains of the honey from the burned hives

I loved that arching serviceberry and tall pine

My favorite aspens

Two days ago the dogs and I finally walked uphill above the fire line into the tall grasses and sage

Smoke from the Falls Creek fire