The Weekend

It's going to be a bad weekend. Predictions are for wind, single digit humidity, and spreading fire.
 

Fires in northern New Mexico.

We don't see flames or towering smoke from our home, just haze trying to overtake an otherwise blue sunny sky. There is a persistent smoky smell that keeps us indoors with windows closed up tight. It's very windy. 

The cottonwood tree in our yard is shedding its white cotton fluff right now, and the drifting seed bundles that look like snow are swirling in murky air and that makes it even weirder. 

In all this, the sun does shine through, my plants are emerging for spring, and the temperatures are mild. But the wind and the smoke -- and the terror that is engulfing communities on the other side of the mountains -- is awful.