Dust in the wind

I went out to water the garden today and found some charred remains of other people's lives in our small yard. Pictured are what appears to be some burned home insulation, tar paper, and a eucalyptus leaf.

 

These kinds of flying, burning embers were a huge problem since the area was so dry. The fire jumped long distances and created lots of spot fires around its border with all the wind driven flying burning bits. At 2-3 miles though, we weren't in too much danger as anything light enough to fly this far would have enough heat capacity to set something else ablaze when it landed. Still scary though.

Our neighbor found a charred page from a Betty Ford rehab clinic brochure. The homes which burned were mostly very expensive, though those who bought more than 15 years ago would have paid a much reasonable price. Anyway, mo' money, mo' problems as they say.


There are also ash everywhere, including coating our sage plant.

 

Our garden is also still producing, the "summer" plants are slowly dying off but we've still got over 100 tomatoes that will come off the plants over the next few weeks. The unseasonable warmth which lead to the fire has some upsides, though Danielle didn't appreciate my joke we could combine the costs and benefits and have fire roasted tomatoes.

 

We've also got some more "winter" vegetables growing, beets and sugar snap peas are pictured.