Volcanic fire

A friend and I travel to Hawaii in March 2018. The lava in the caldera had dropped on the volcano and the road around it was closed because of the gases. The changing eruption happened over the next few months. We found a place to wait for nightfall to take photographs. It is way more dramatic in the night, isn’t it? We could see fire rising up in the day too, but at night the smoke is lit up as well by the lava below. A scene on fire, beautiful and terrifying.

The smoke from forest fires has dissipated in Grand Junction. I stayed mostly inside for a few days, which is not hard on work days. The clothes I wear are backwards from the ones I wear on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. There I have a windbreaker and layers for outside and I think my heat pump has had the air conditioning on once ever. Here I need the warmer clothes for the air conditioned inside. I get cold at work by lunch time and go outside to warm up! Very strange.

For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: fire.

4 thoughts on “Volcanic fire

  1. Air conditioning is great, our car has it, but sometimes it can be too cold lol.

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  3. I remember sitting outside at night watching the cane fields burn on the distant hillsides. There was a beauty to the red glow on the horizon.

    (I’m not weighing in on the arguments for and against burning cane fields. I’m not going to pretend to know why burning cane fields is bad and burning prairies is good.)

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