Australia burning...
The news is of hundreds of homes lost, fears of weather and winds bringing three separate fires into one, a pall of orange smoke over Sydney, smokey haze over the Opera House on Sydney Harbour... The blaze is in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. On my first trip to Sydney, we drove up that way, a little ways into those mountains and looked out from a high place into them. It is a terrible thing to happen anywhere, but it hits home hard and personal when you've been there. My heart aches for... Sign in to see full entry.