Yesterday morning began with a green sky. I had seen green skies before in Illinois, just before we would get pounded by a thunderstorm, but this was different. No roiling clouds or rumbling but just a morning light that could have been from overcast, but wasn’t.
Then I saw the sun. It had what appeared to be a terrible hangover. A bleary red eye wondering why it felt so bad.
Phone couldn’t quite get the green
The walk to work was warm, but not nearly as hot as it had been. Surprisingly the air wasn’t too bad. It didn’t smell of smoke and my eyes didn’t itch.
The Sun is the sad little dot in the center, just above the trees
For the walk home, the sky had changed to brown and the sun looked even worse.
Go to bed already
Fortunately, the marine layer kept the worst of the smoke above us but it sure was weird.
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