4153Another picture that grabbed my attention as I strolled through my photo archives.
Dateline? Early September, 2020. The Beachie Creek Fire, and others up the North Santiam Canyon had combined into the Santiam wildfire which would dominate local events for about two months. The fire wasn't considered contained until the beginning of December 2020.
The mantle of smoke spread up north from the mid-Willamette and eventually covered the Portland Metro area. We were headed up to Vancouver to do a thing, and the smoke was intruding into the area at that time. I got many pictures of the sky.
But it's this one, with Wy'east over the Columbia River, shot from the Glenn Jackson Bridge, that stays with me.
It was the last clear air day before what was to be weeks of air the quality of which I had not seen in my lifetime and so far - the fates willing - I don't see again.
We can't be sure about that, though, the way things are going.
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