Thursday

The smoke in the atmosphere isn't as visible as it seems to be in the photos taken further south, but we could definitely smell it in the air the past few days. The sun was very large, red and flat-looking when I left for work yesterday morning, but the camera in my tablet couldn't capture the full effect. This morning, as I was waiting for the bus, I heard what I thought was one airplane and looked up to see nine, flying in a tight diamond-shaped formation. The other woman at the stop said they were going to help fight the fires.