Fire(works)

I looked out my front window recently, and saw this:

It looked like a house in our neighborhood was on fire.  As it turns out, the fire was much bigger than that.

The mountains near our home were engulfed in a rapidly-moving wildfire.  During the day, the huge, rolling smoke clouds make me stop and look, and hope that all the people are ok.

At night, the bursts of flames licking over the ridges make me catch my breath in frightened awe.

Tonight, we saw the fire of man juxtaposed against Mother Nature's fire.  Hers won.  Wow.