World on Fire

It's that time of year again, when the world around Los Angeles is ablaze. From our window, we can see fire in the hills to the east of Downtown. It literally looks like the ski slope from hell, with fire instead of snow. The flames are clearly visible from here, about 20 or 30 miles away. This makes us grateful for the lack of green around here, although we feel for the firefighters who are stuck fighting this inferno. Updates on the LA Times blog.

The air quality here has been terrible this weekend because of the smoke, so we've stayed at home and only gone out to the cinema (Public Enemies, bad; District 9, good). DVDs: Adventureland, good; and Alias Jesse James, OK. TV: episode 3 of the new season of Mad Men, excellent!

And, slowly, we're labeling the photos on our Smugmug account. The rest of the website will be back up at the end of September. We're learning Dreamweaver.