Thanks for sharing this fine collage showing the tough side of nature. I like the one aimed directly at the sun, who needs filters! Hope conditions improve and the fires can be tamed. nice work.

Excellent captures, well done..

I was wondering about you when I saw the fire map...hope they stay far away from you! Nice collage!

Hope the fire fighters get a grip on the fires! It's realy erarly this year, right? Great Collage!

Some intelligent person on the news the other night said our fire season is 2 months early and usually it is August and September when we get this many raging fires. He wondered, if the fires are so bad now, what will it be like during the end of summer. That's a no-brainer! It will be fantastic! There won't be anything left to burn by then!

I was looking at a fire map earlier today as well, wondering how close they were to you. Too close for comfort, obviously, if that's what the air is like! Yikes!

Yikes - I said to PJ on site mail last night that I cannot imagine how it must be to breathe that air. My eyes and throat starts burning just by looking at the images!!!! Good luck there Marilyn!!! :)

excellent collage Marylin, i'm so glad it wasn't that bad here this year.

Interesting and frightening

I agree, it has frightening atmosphere, corresponds with reality. Good work!

It seems you have a season for fires out there then, do you need a licence for the season like Duck shooting? I'm not poking fun at the serious side of this Marilyn its just the comment from PJ about the no-brainer news reporter. I sincerely hope you get some rain to douse those fires down, if I could divert some of ours over to you I would. I know my Pauline would find it very hard to cope with the smoke, she goes into coughing fits everytime the neighbours have a barbie. I really do feel for people over there with any type of chest problem. A nice storyboard report of the fire problems Marilyn, take care and stay safe. Excellent work. Bravo!!!!!

i really could`nt begin to imagine what this must be like to live and breath this smoke marilyn and like jeff i really do feel for you guys having to suffer this

hope all be well with you and thanks for the report

1,400 fires going according to one report I read. Global warming on the march. We usually get the brush and wildfires down here in Southern Calif, but that is a mean and dirty situation going on up north. I understand the fire-fighting aircraft from all over the USA are battling the conflagrations. Anyway, stay inside, close all the vents and windows, wear goggles and a filter mask, and hunker down for the duration of this onslaught, Marilyn.

Hope all those wild fires stop...tame them down. Aloha

It's been clear where I live for the last two days. Let's hope it stays that way!

hope them fires get under control and not burn or destroy so much warm hug, Linda

Yep was like this in the Bay Area last week. and the sun was very red. I shoulda took a pic ughhh! wonderful collage :-)

WOW! So thick that you can take a picture of the sun straight on! Do be careful out there.