Smokey
Posted on 01 February 2010
It was smokey last night. There is a bushfire about 35km away and the wind was blowing the smoke straight towards us. Rather unpleasant.
Unfortunately, as unpleasant as I found it, I had to spend a lot of time standing outside, talking to the mares, who could smell the smoke and had gotten stressed.
No chance of the fire making it towards us, but they didn’t know that.
Today it’s cleared a lot and it’s just mildly hazy. The temperatures have dropped too, along with the wind dying down.
This is what it looked like last night. That photo is straight-out-of-the-camera with nothing done to it except a resize.
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I'm Veronica Foale and I get a strange amount of pleasure writing about my life on the internet. This blog started when I rescued two mares in need of pasture rest and feeding up. One mare, Belle, has since moved on to a new home and Emma is still hanging about. I suspect this blog will morph and change into a record of what is happening on my property. See More? Advertise
I don’t blame them for being nervous – it must be driving their senses into overload!
We get those orange skies when they are burning crops in Mexico. I love the surrealism of it (but not what it’s probably doing to our lungs).
Goodness, that must be scary for you as well, even when you know in your head that they won’t reach you. I’m sure your heart must feel differently.