From my bed,
waning moon
glides
across a velvet sky.
A planet
shimmers nearby,
far above
the earth
and
my head.
The Blue Marble rotates.
Woke up
7:00 a.m.
to pumpkin spice darkness
odorless
it took only one dream and half a nightmare
to travel the
forty-three point seven five six million miles
to the red planet.
Do I still need a mask?
California wildfire smoke has been visibly in the air in the San Francisco Bay Area for a while now, but NEVER like this. Although it looks super creepy, apparently, the fog acts like a buffer. The smoke rests above it. My own photos don’t do it justice so …
This shot is from my daughter’s house in Vallejo, CA at 9:00 am this morning
And this one, 10:00 am, where she works as brewmaster at the Mare Island Brewing Co.
On that note, I’ll leave you with a find by Rosi Hollinbeck, writer, blogger, children’s book reviewer extraordinaire. It probably speaks for all of us.
❤ Be Well, Dear Reader ❤
Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner 
Wow. The smoke is much worse there than here. Stay safe and stay inside. Take care of yourselves.
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Actually, not as bad as it looks, but staying in anyway. And apologies for misspelling your name. It’s been corrected 🙂
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Scary, Donna. Take care.
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Thankfully, it looks worse than it is. At least here, it does. You take care, too, Susanne 🙂
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Sadly apt.
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Indeed. Thank you for always stopping by Derrick 🙂
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Do you have your spacesuit ready?
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Always 🙂
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That looks just like our South coast at the beginning of the year. So utterly terrifying. Yes, I think we all feel a bit like the sentiments of that sign.
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Yes, you’ve had your share too. Be and stay well, Lyn ❤
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😀 Thanks, Donna, you too.
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This is fantastical. I keep wishing I could send the West Coast some of the extraordinary amount of water we’re getting here on the Gulf Coast.
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Most of it has cleared in the meantime. I’d bee happy to take a nice downpour off your hands. You be well, Ellen.
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