Fire and Ashes

About a half an hour later we were almost to the house. From the stop light I could see smoke in the distance, in the same direction of home. Hopefully everyone over there was okay and it was only a small forest fire or someone just going too crazy with burning dead leaves in their yard. Forest fires were common this time of year, little puffs of smoke could be seen from the roads in every direction, but I had never seen one so close to home before. They were normally in areas away from houses, controlled burns that kept the woods clean and a lot safer for everyone. They kept brush levels low, cleaned up old dead logs that had fallen about. You could look into the trees and see for miles, well maybe not miles but you get my point.