And it begins. A fire in the distance, visible from my apartment, the plume of smoke, the ceaseless sound of water bombers.
Last night a quick thunder and lightening storm that dropped little for rain but lots for lightning and - from the rainiest spring I remember to - in the span of 2 weeks, what is likely to be another record year for forest fires. A slight haze this morning has become already a pall upon the town.
