I actually took this photo from my yard. We were burning off the spare lot below me which was totally overgrown. This was a number of years ago. This is the same lot I’ve now made into a little park. I think the flames look like a goddess with an elaborate headdress riding an elephant.
For CFFC: Fire
Traveler’s Advisory
An explorer most intrepid, while plodding pole-to-pole,
one day declared this wish to be his penultimate goal.
He wanted to increase his pace to maximal extent
by carrying less luggage everywhere he went.
He found a weightless backpack that, sadly, was inflammable,
into which he stuffed all his possessions that were crammable.
He then set off upon his trek at a healthy trot,
on a day the sun was inordinately hot.
Glancing off his zipper, it started a small fire
near the bottom of his backpack that quickly traveled higher,
igniting matches in his pack, and then the gasoline
he carried to start fires with set a magazine
stuffed into his bag top gloriously afire,
turning his whole backpack into a funeral pyre.
The moral of this story is, if your travel pack
isn’t fire retardant, don’t bear it on your back!!
Prompt words for today are inflammable, pole, explore, maximal and pace.
At the end of every summer, they burn weeds off the mountain. These are photos of both the mountain afire
and the lot next to my house. Good thing construction is almost entirely concrete and red tile roofs here. Well, except for the palapas which always seem to escape unscathed.
Click on any photo below to enlarge all.
And, of course, there is the biggest fire of summer, here shown going down. Click on any photo to enlarge all.
Published as part of this series: https://ceenphotography.com/2017/04/04/cees-fun-foto-challenge-summer-fire/
Observing the burning off the hugely overgrown lot next door was a bit like viewing burning tea leaves. I saw a woman in a turban riding a giant frog among a hundred other images over the three nights it took to complete the burn. What do you see? Yes, it did get scary. And very very smoky. I especially like the shot of the LED lights on the plants next to my pool with the glow from the burn behind them.
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