Ahhh The Beauty of A Sunset

Lately all our sunsets have been influenced by wildfire smoke. Even the slightest smoke particle can change the way we see things.

I like this one because the clouds look like a small stream leading to the
mountain top.

This one is the sun setting behind the mountains. Notice the band of clouds
blocking the middle of the sun and how hazy the mountains look.

Sometimes, we are gifted with some amazing photo opportunities like these.

This is one of my favorites. The contrast of the trees against the orange
sky and clouds is striking.

At The Airport

Kamloops Airport is formally named Fulton Field and handles a nominal amount of daily traffic. After over twenty years jet service has also returned to our fair city. Every kid loves to go to the airport to watch the planes land and take off.

During the dry summer months there can be a plethora of planes landing and taking off. But these are not the average passenger prop or jet planes. No, these planes are fire planes. When we hear these planes flying over the house we know that there's a forest fire out there somewhere. We hope that it isn't threatening any homes and that the firefighters can beat it down quickly.

The summer of 2003 was a wildfire bonanza for British Columbia and I was one of the many thousands evacuated from their homes. Some, like myself and my family, were lucky, others lost not just their homes, but their livelihoods as well.

My eternal gratitude goes to the BC Forest Service and all that they do for our forests.