Mar 10th, 2016: Night Fires

[xoxoxoBruce]

I love lightning, but in most storms it’s wham bam thank you ma’am, and you’re instantly in reminisce mode, hoping for a second date.
Barring an attack at Grover’s Mill, or Chicken Little was right, nothing is as scary and at the same time beautiful, as a forest fire at night.



There's a bunch of pro photographers who will drop most anything to race to a new fire, two of whom are Jeff Frost and Stewart Palley.
Terrain and fire favorable conditions seem to give California a lot of spectacular fires. Wind from the ocean, or from the desert, seems to drive these fires so fast individual trees appear to explode like a row of “match heads”.



But even after the fire front races through exploding those “match heads”, the “match” in the form of the trunk continues to burn,
with the wind carrying embers sometimes for miles.
Don’t be like firemen, run AWAY from fire... unless you're in school, in which case you must walk, don't run, or it will go on your permanent record.