T'WAS A WARM, BRISK HEADWIND blowing against my Honda Pilot as I crossed the Missouri River at Rocheport, Missouri today. Had left Nashville with its 90+ heat and 100% humidity last night to begin the long drive West and after weeks of non-stop work and projects. Several hours later I collapsed in a motel in Cadiz, Kentucky and slept for nine hours.
Today along with the wind, there was heat and more heat driving west. I managed to stop in Rocheport this afternoon for a short hike along the muddy, fast Missouri. It was almost too hot to walk at that hour.
Now in central Kansas and a good friend called to say the Front Range in Colorado was covered in smoke from new fires spreading in Colorado Springs and Rocky Mountain National Park. Over 100 houses are already gone up in flames and evacuations are increasing..... so sad but nature's way of cleaning house of dead wood..... Going to be another long, hot, smoky summer in the Rockies as this drought and the pine beetle blight grinds on, I fear.
Meanwhile, it's a beautiful, breezy night in the center of the country on the High Plains.
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