Smoke and Fire

As much as I would have enjoyed just plain “relaxing” today, we decided it was a good day to clean up our burn pile area.  Lots of wet stuff so lots of smoke. I do like a good fire.   A few hours of work and some standing around looking at how beautiful the smoke was. …Only downside was picking up a big pile to see there was a long dead raccoon in it..eek..well fortunately I had gloves on.  (did not put it in the fire)   I did think  a lot about my great Dad who would have been 115 today.  He liked a good fire too so I found this old photo from 1951, burning our Christmas tree in back of the house I grew up in.   He is the one parent of ours that would have loved this place the most!  I'm very sorry he never saw it.

The blobs from yesterday I think are plumose amenomes stuck on a piling that recently washed up on our beach…so they are out of the water about half time and hanging down… I tried to find some that look normal but so far no luck…and didn’t catch these under water…I do wonder if they are even alive.


The fire is still smoking..have to go poke it…