Wildfires in Canada (Quebec, apparently) are responsible for the smoky haze that moved into my neighborhood in the early morning hours.
A northerly wind drove the plume into the area; first into northern New England, and then as far South as Cape Cod. Because today is usually a huge occasion for cooking outdoors (grilling or bbq), I can't determine if the pleasant scent wafting into the house is due to fragrant cedars and other hardwoods being incinerated up north, or just a nice, marinated steak (mmmm, is that A1? ) from a few houses down the road.Canada seems almost too far away to cause a visible layer of what is obvioulsy smoke from a fire "way up there." The light smoke is settling into bottomlands. . its not just "in the sky" as you might expect.Makes you feel a little more vulnerable. If it was toxic, or even an invisible compound traveling with the prevailing wind, its all just confirmation that we're powerless against the forces of mother nature.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_c.png?x-id=151db91d-d584-46ff-9596-9c75ceeb2ca2)
A northerly wind drove the plume into the area; first into northern New England, and then as far South as Cape Cod. Because today is usually a huge occasion for cooking outdoors (grilling or bbq), I can't determine if the pleasant scent wafting into the house is due to fragrant cedars and other hardwoods being incinerated up north, or just a nice, marinated steak (mmmm, is that A1? ) from a few houses down the road.Canada seems almost too far away to cause a visible layer of what is obvioulsy smoke from a fire "way up there." The light smoke is settling into bottomlands. . its not just "in the sky" as you might expect.Makes you feel a little more vulnerable. If it was toxic, or even an invisible compound traveling with the prevailing wind, its all just confirmation that we're powerless against the forces of mother nature.
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