Mewsings

This is my parent's front and back yard at 3pm today. There are crazy wildfires all over southern California - Malibu, Santa Rosa, Piru, Fillmore - the closest is around 20 miles away, unfortunately a few homes are threatened and a big castle burned in Malibu, but local web news says only brush has burned closer to us. Mom is all stressed out, and trying to find local news (it mostly talks of Malibu). I am just capturing the changing colours with my camera. I usually love the smell of bonfires, but there is so much ash falling and strong winds, it burns the eyes.

14 Fires burning throughout Southern California now, state of emergency declared. This is really bad - 128+ homes have been burned and thousands of acres of brush. There are ashes everywhere - like when Mt. St Helens volcano went so many years ago. There are always fires this time of year but it hasn't been this bad in at least 10 years. And it is always worsened by the dry weather and high winds. One of the worst at foothill ranch has been set by arsonists.

why??????