The National Interagency Fire Center has complicated things a little this morning by combining the Little Goose and Bone Creek fires on their website, which makes if difficult for those of us here in the Sheridan area to know what is going on in our back yard. According to the report this morning at Sheridan [...]

I had planned on posting this earlier, but my blog host had a system problem. Not too much to report tonight except that the hot spots in the canyons on the eastern slope south of Red Grade road seem to have either been put out, or have burned themselves out. Now all the work is [...]

This shot was from my yard about 7 PM and it is of the sun, not the moon. I used spot metering rather than matrix. Matrix metering looks at the overall image in the viewfinder and then “averages” the exposure for the entire image. In this case the area surrounding the sun was just a [...]

I just received a comment on my blog today from a woman living in Massachusetts who’s daughter is fighting the Little Goose Canyon fire, which reminded me that every person involved in fighting this fire is a son or daughter, mother or father, husband or wife, sister or brother, aunt or uncle, cousin or friend [...]

Not much for me to report on the (apparent) status of the fire this afternoon since you can hardly see the mountain. According to reports at the Sheridan Media website, this is due to a managed back burn they are conducting on top, and also from a fire now burning in the Shell Canyon area [...]

This morning the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) website reports: Little Goose (Bighorn National Forest): 4,575 acres at 40 percent contained. This fire is burning 15 miles southwest of Sheridan. Moderate fire behavior was reported. The communities of Little Goose and Teepee are threatened. Evacuations are in effect. And according to a post dated yesterday [...]

I had posted a screen capture from Google Earth that I though showed some of the fire damage, but on closer inspection, it did not. For any of you that caught that post before I deleted it, I apologize.

The eastern slope had cleared quite a bit by about 8:00 pm. This is a shot of the still smoldering area south of Red Grade road. It reminds me somewhat of the Scottish Moors although it’s not mist, it’s smoke. The good news is that the next few days are supposed to be calm with [...]