More weed pictures!

This is a weed.  It was living by my back fence.   Parentage and genealogy unknown.  A nasty thorny thing, it produces a beautiful bloom.  Even more amazing, the flowers open all at the same time.  Beauty in an unlikely place.

Fire on Blue Mountain!

This is the result of years of drought.  The land is tinder dry.  Now when a lightening storm comes along we can watch these things spring up across the valley.  This one is on the east side of Blue Mountain.  A beautiful place.  It'll take years for the beauty to be restored.  It is being fought, but the winds are high.  We won't know until morning. 

The second photo is of the leading edge of the storm that sparked the fire.  Beautiful, but very, very scary!!!!