Smokey Skies

 Sandy Bear here... I am trying to get out of the habit of pre-posting blogs two months in advance! Sigh... soooo many adventures this summer. OK... so this is from September 12... not tooo far out of date. I woke up this morning to... beary gloomy, smokey skies.

See... normally I could see the ocean and the coast mountains on the mainland from here... but it's all just smoke. And not from BC either. This is apparently all from Washington State and Oregon. They are having beary bad wildfires this year.

See... this is normal...

It's a few minutes before sunrise and I thought I'd wait and see if we could see it come up.

Just have to be patient.

Hmmm... 20 minutes after sunrise and not much is happening. That is some think smoke if the sun can't even poke through!

Ah well... 

At least we can still see the moon although... later in the day... that disappeared too. And now we are just in a brown orange haze...

Did you know fall is coming? Hard to believe, eh? It's been such a weird summer and here we are in fall already.

This is just a little hike... we don't want to go to far or too hard because...

We have smoke and our air quality index is over 10. The scale only goes from 1 to 10... so we are all encouraged not to do anything crazy or vigorous...

Well... guess that means it's time for my weekly brownie. Yes... the brownie is only once a week... it is a well-deserved treat for this little bear...

And we did eventually see the sun... it looked a lot redder than the camera could get it...

Oh, and this is a comparative pic from Vancouver... Smoke and no smoke... Crazy no?