From my balcony. [to the Nature section since R'osity has no section for news, or photojournalism!] I read later it was a 130-acre burn that required 4 aircraft and about 3 hours to extinguish. I only raced home at the end of it to shoot this. It's been about 15 years since a similar scene, best of my reckoning, since I've lived here about 18 years. Times like this, the reason I raced, I'm always worried about the Stanford radio telescope dish, but once again no damage, whew. And the general hills area around it are a favorite of mine for a hike. I've hiked in similar grass ashes and survived before! In fact it might be best to burn the dry grass (in a bit more of a controlled manner) so it doesn't build up, and some of the seeds actually require the heat to germinate certain trees, you know the lecture. Anyway, it certainly won't be burning again this summer, so we can chalk that one off. A minor incident compared to what's happening elsewhere. Hope your trees are dripping from too much rain. You can't win.