Good morning! We have our first forest fire of the season burning called the Alexander Mountain Fire. It is burning just west of Loveland and was estimated at 1,820 acres with 0% containment as of 10:00 a.m. this morning. I took this image around 7:00 pm yesterday evening from Arapaho Bend Natural Area.
This morning I was awake and up by 4:00 am. After my quiet time I drove up to Pineridge to watch the sunrise. What a gift with a cloudless sky. I could see the smoke from the fire drifting gently out to the east but not smell it. On my way back into town, I came across a house on West Mulberry with a large fire burning in the backyard of the home. I pulled over as the four fire trucks and ambulance pulled up and just cried, and cried hard. Think I’m feeling too much of the pain of this world with natural disasters and man’s incessant need for killing, so the dam burst. Hope you have a good day!
2 Comments
Tom Dills
It’s both discouraging and frightening that wildfires have become a regular fact of life. While they may produce interesting sunrises and sunsets, the damage they inflict is so devestating.
Monte Stevens
It does seem like there are more fires and hurricanes and earthquakes and tornados and wars … Yet, I am aware that change is a pattern of nature, Death and rebirth. I found our we have another fire now just south of us near Lyons.