Fire Formations - Missoula, Montana

Smoke plumes from a couple peripheral fires burning on national forest land blended with high cloud formations above the Missoula valley. Fire season presents a strange dichotomy which we in the western mountain regions have become used to: it makes for spectacular sunsets and provokes good-paying jobs, but we'd all prefer some rain.

Fire Season - Lolo Peak, Lolo National Forest, Montana

"Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs;
Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in a lover's eyes..."

- from Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 1, Line 196