Smoke
After a cold wet spring, it has been a warm, very dry summer in the Pacific Northwest. Being a sun worshiper, I’m ordinarily good with that, but this summer has been a killer. To the north of us, 163 wild fires burn in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. Dense smoke has drifted south and blanketed our region with a persistent dirty haze. Around midsummer the winds that normally blow cool marine air in off the Pacific die and we enjoy incredibly beautiful long, clear days as the sun drops slowly towards the horizon, twilight lasting until around 10:00 pm.