the nature of things

 

Sanja and I went to the park very early this morning, as the air quality has been affected by the nearby Springs fire and it's at least clearer right now.  

I collected some more remains from park's the diseased and fallen pine trees (scanned images,above), grateful that we have those, and escaped the firestorm.

 This was taken from the front yard yesterday morning -- you can see some of the active areas of the fire in the center left of the photo.