Los Angeles is Burning.....

As many of you are experiencing, and many more have heard, Southern California is experiencing devastating wild fires right now. The hot Santa Ana winds are carrying flames and smoke throughout SoCal and a lot of people have lost their homes. We are lucky enough not to live in an area that is threatened, but many of our friends have had to evacuate their houses, and we are hoping they have a home to return to in the morning.

This morning, we left Mar Vista and drove the cats down to Orange County for their yearly check-up at the vet. As we got on the 105 highway, we were able to see the mountains and saw the smoke from the Santa Barbara fires...about an hour and a half later, driving back towards Chris' parents' home in Los Alamitos (33 miles from where we started and much, MUCH further from the smoke we saw on the horizon) we were driving through smoke! Fires had spread and I took these photos from the car later that day to show the crazy sky, and also how you can see exactly where the wind stream is, showing the blue sky just beyond.


p.s......chris is really sweet...he bought my flowers yesterday just because. awwww