There are four HUGE fires burning in Colorado right now.
https://wildfiretoday.com/2020/08/15/four-large-wildfires-keep-firefighters-in-colorado-busy/
https://www.cpr.org/2020/08/15/colorado-wildfire-updates-2020-evacuations-closures-size/
The smoke is settling everywhere
Clinging thick; swathing the world in a horrid shroud of death and destruction
Oppressive
Abundant
(this is the sun about 4:00 p.m.)
wearily blurring the eyes and burning the lungs
The smoke speaks volumes of what the firefighters are experiencing
And all living creatures caught in the path of the fires
And the poor trees, bushes, and other plants succumbing to the passion of the flames.
Then about 4 o’clock yesterday our local newspaper reported The Mille Creek Fire near Gunnison, Colorado
Our world is sagging with the fires and the other-the-top heat (103*f —39.44c) plus the dry lightning.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Its very bad here. Sometimes can’t even see the Flatirons
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Misty and the whole family are in Fort Collins today, Blade is going to CSU this year. I asked if there was smoke there, and she said no, but, of course, where she lives you can’t see the next block SIGH
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Thinking of your and everyone in the path of the fires. You know I know what it’s like…
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😦 Thank you so much Kate. It is a sad time.
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Fire season comes around much too often. I hope you stay safe and that none of these fires were deliberately set.
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Elaine said three of them were human caused. Sigh!
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It’s very heartbreaking… I used to go fishing with my dad up Grizzly Creek long ago.
And to hear 3 of the 4 were human caused. Stupid. 😦
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Stupid is the word. Do you know which ones? I tried to find out, but where I looked I didn’t see the cause.
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Not too smoky here in Steamboat today, but depends on which way the wind blows. Yesterday it was 7% humidity at our house. So terribly dry and hot. We are praying for rain! Everyone living near the fires stay safe!
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Very much so. It’s so smokey here we can’t see across the fields now.
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Oh no! We don’t have air conditioning so have windows open at night. Horrible when it is so smoky.
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Very much so!
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So sorry this is happening Linda. I hope you get some rain to beat them back.
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Me too….we need an old-fashioned raindance, I do believe.
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Oh I’m so sorry to hear about all these fires, Linda. I’m praying that they can be put out soon and that you will be safe where you live. How horrendous.
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Thank you….COME ON RAIN!!!
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How close are they to you?
Wow. Smoke thick enough to make the Sun pink.
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An hour away, for the second largest in the state of Colorado the others are further.
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Glad to hear that but, you’re still getting the smoke.
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Yes, horrible We can’t see a block away
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We prayed for rain for your state as we gathered on Wednesday evening and we will continue to do so.
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Thank you so much. This is so sad and so horrid.
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Oh Linda I’m so very sorry to hear about the fires … they can be so devastating! Praying for lots of rain .. hugs my friend
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Thank you…Prayers and Rain will work!
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