Dry Throats and Smokey Sunset

Smoke gets in your everywhere

Out on an errand run, I grabbed this shot of an orange dot of a sun trying to burn through the smoke and haze blowing through the US from Canadian wildfires.A hazy street scene in Chicago looking down a road with cars. A tall street light pole with a green "N Laramie Av" sign stands in the foreground, with the prominent clock tower of the Copernicus Center visible on the right against a dim, glowing sun obscured by thick smoke from Canadian wildfires

Forgot to grab my mask as I headed out for the short trip, so traveling from two parking lots into two stores, my throat and sinuses dried up with that burning taste in a hurry.

Seeing very little in town traffic for this time of day, it sounds like most folks are heeding warnings and staying inside. Wish I had.

Stay careful out there.

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Author: Warner Crocker

I stumble through life as a theatre director and playwright as well as a gadget geek...commenting along the way. Every day I learn something new is a good day, so I share what I find exciting, new, stupid and often worthwhile.

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