Yesterday the temp on my car thermometer was 111

How funny life can be.  I moved to Colorado to get out of the intense heat so I could enjoy my walking/hiking more.  So what happens, we have a dryer and hotter season.  Today they are saying it will be 100+.  Yesterday I was out for some errands and the thermometer on my car said it was 111 in the sun.  Today who knows how high it will get.  This is more like Arizona than Colorado.  I haven't been walking as much as I had hoped I would.  For some reason I have not been able to stabilize my life and all the stress from this has me down and out.  I tend to not move much now.  I want to do the Camino but I can't do it without getting in better shape and losing some weight.  So my up beat attitude is wavering.  I still dream of walking the Camino.  Today I went on a Camino site and looked around to stimulate me.  Then I found this great Camino patch that I can sew on to my backpack and wear when I walk.  I ordered it.  It felt like I was committing myself, preparing for the trip, keeping it alive.

By the way, the fire has now burned over 80,000 Acres.

Buen Camino
b

And The Fires Have Come to Enrich the Land

So Mother Nature has decided we need to clean the land here.  She sent lightening, let it smolder for a few days and then 6am Saturday 6/9/12 it erupted.  Since then the fire has burned over 47,000 acres and is on its way to the largest fire in this area.  I am watching the pictures on the TV right now.  They are showing it from the sky.  It currently is many, many miles long devouring a beetle kill area.  I see the flames rising high in the sky, some look over 100 feet tall.  It is volcanic like in it's consumption.  The smoke makes billowous feel like a trickle.  The film is shocking as it fills the screen.  Knowing what it looks like from a plane, everything so small, this fire is enormous.

This is day one.

http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2012/06/reader-photos-high-park-fire-burning-west-of-fort-collins/37367/#name%20here

Here is a link to more pictures of what is happening around my home.  This is my first fire and it is teaching me how small I am.  I have walked where there has been a fire and it is something to see.  A lot of stems in the air and on the ground but nothing else.  Then, you will pass a small flower coming up through all the destruction reminding you that life continues.   One day I will be hiking where this fire is, maybe not till next year as they are saying the fire might not be contained and out till fall.

Enjoy the pictures and may this not happen in your area.

buen camino

b