Sky-drama

This afternoon, I drove around a corner, and, whoa! A great billow of smoke, starting to fill the eastern sky! The last time I had that experience, with some big fire making a huge, charcoal grey plume over the hills to the east, it ended with 2000 homes burned down, and my lawn littered with legible ashes from other people’s books. Naturally, the sight today made me wonder if this was a wildfire much closer to home than the usual, and if people’s houses were at risk.

It turned out to be an industrial fire at a wood products plant in Springfield – apparently all 250 employees escaped unharmed, but the photos I saw online of the conflagration were pretty alarming.

D’s friends are continuing their chamber ensemble over the summer, and they’ve given themselves the assignment of arranging music for the group. D’s decided to compose a piece himself – it’s about how his friend’s dog knocked her DS out of her hand, preventing her from saving some major achievement in a game.