it is still really fucking hot as i write this.  temperature hovering around 80 f [27 c].  it is late summer.  the fires, carr & mendocino complex, are fucking apocalyptic.  for the past two weeks & some the sky looks like it is enshrouded in fog.  nope, it is smoke.  we wake to find a fine coat of ash on our cars.  we breathe it in.  the heat makes the smoky air just that much worse.  the sun looks like a big bloody ball.  & the mendocino complex fire is expected to burn all they way to september.  the climate is a'changin'.  & not for the better.  california has always been hot & dry.  it has always experienced wildfires.  but the new normal is a year-long fire season with fires burning at the nth intensity.  last year was horrific.  large swaths of the wine country incinerated in fires that were so out of proportion to received norms of what was the traditional parameters of summer time california fires.  this year's fires might even be worse.  i don't know what more to say.  these extreme weather events are going to become more extreme.  we may experience periods of calm in the near future.  who knows.  but we have disrupted the climate.  we have the resources, for now, to cope with these extreme events.  but if they continue to become more extreme with every passing year, well, our effective coping strategies & mechanisms might stretch to the breaking point.  but for now, i can only express my awe & sadness at our fire smudged sky & bloody sun.  what dreams may come.