British Columbia is on Fire

July 2017--

British Columbia is on fire. Well a lot of it is, anyway. We went driving around to see what we could see-- and what we couldn’t see. Smoke from the wildfires hundreds of kilometres away have obscured the sun for days on end. Here are some pictures:

 This is Blind Bay Road, heading towards the lake.  The trees are not really covered with ashes-- That's an artifact of the dirty windshield, which IS covered with ashes...

 Here's one of the giant mini-mansions near the waterfront.  The reddish ball in the sky is the Sun.  It looked a lot redder in real life...

 Here's the Marina, mountains in the background barely visible through the smoke.  The sign in the middle says "Thank you."

By contrast, only a couple of days later, the wind shifted and we had blue skies again.  This is what watering the flower baskets is SUPPOSED to be like!