Compulsive Tendencies
The two fires have topped 90,000 acres as of Thursday evening, and Pinedale is getting burnt to the ground.
Okay, so maybe I'm being obsessive about this. But you know, if I had been around when that asteroid blew up over Tunguska, I'd probably have been all over that too, despite all the dead forest animals and political prisoners....wait...that happened before they realized Siberia was good for gulags didn't it...
Well anyway, like I said, I was being obsessive, and I stopped on my way home from work and took this series of pictures and crunched them into an animation of the smokages down yonder.
This prairie dog was all bent out of shape and yapping at me because I parked my car next to his foyer to get the pictures.
A few minutes after I finished up, I got home and noticed that the smoke was suddenly going nova, so I obsessed some more and churned out this animation. (Note: Both files are nearly 800K each). Isn't the Southeast view from my house lovely? It's just one of those things you don't really notice when you're all excited that you found a home in Flag for under $120,000. A little out of view in that animation is the Purina tower. That's a heck of a landmark. I'm embarrassed to say there are days I come home from work and they're churning out whatever brand of puppy chow, and it actually smells darned yummy.
My rose bushes seemed to be doing okay, despite the slow torture of skimpy waterings. I've got buds on them finally and a couple blooms. But then today I noticed some round bites missing from bunches of leaves, and I'm thinking, that's not grasshoppers or caterpillers. What, do I have harvester ants now?? Then, as if to answer my unspoken question, this black and white striped bee zooms past my head and docks onto one of the roses and starts chewing a perfect little bee-sized leaf-frisbee that she can take home to her family for hours of wholesome fun. I'm trying to bring myself to the realization that I'm fighting a losing battle against nature and domesticated pets.
The mean bee that is turning my rose bushes into swiss cheese.
Here's the kids, trying to figure out why I was standing at the front door snapping pictures like an idiot.
Jeremy
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