Not great photographs - two - one looking toward Mt. Shasta, one taken while driving back toward Medford Oregon. Taken in June 2008.
http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/smoke.htm In June, I headed up toward Scott Valley, Siskiyou, where I have visited several times. My father grew up there, I research family history there, and visit second cousins. It's a beautiful rural area. The NIGHT before I arrived, I was driving late, was the FIRST thunder storm that started the forest fires in California. I was going to drive and arrive late. But, on the road, I saw the storm. It looked and sounded, quite frankly, like a small war -- like a bombing raid. And it was CLOSE. Rather scary. So I stopped short and stayed the night in Dunsmuir. I visited a second cousin in the valley the next day, then the valley started filling up with smoke. He and his friend told me we were not in any danger, but the smoke got heavy, quick. So I quit the valley -- it looked like the end of the world. The next day I thought the skies in Oregon would be clearer and started driving toward Portland. But they got worst the more I headed toward Portland, so I drove back. But not to the valley. The smoke had blown north, also, it was so dense, I figured Oregon had fires of its own. The air up there, northern northern California, is as clear as any in California. Usually very clear and very pretty. Normally, from the highway, you can see Mt. Shasta quite clearly. That fire started in Happy Camp, a remote area in Scott Valley, the first forest fire. But it took about two and two and a half months to put out. (I kept checking fire maps on the Net.) Of course, the locals didn't help that much. It's a thinly populated area, the fires was in a hard to reach area, and it's an economically depressed area -- they were making money renting/selling port-a-potties, trucks, tractors, and water to firefighters. (Or so one of the town leaders told me. :-)) And I swear our area, CC County, most of California, has been 10X smoggier since the fires. Marnie :-) --------------------------------------------- Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. **************Nothing says I love you like flowers! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000001) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
