While looking around on the InciWeb website, I found this picture, which is credited to Dick Bodine. It was taken on Sunday the 12th when it was 102 degrees and windy. We should be counting our blessings on this one friends. Think how bad it could have been if the high temperatures and winds had [...]

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Steve Segin, Public Information Officer for the Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team for sending me the link to the InciWeb website, which has up-to-date information on all of the fires around the country. According to a news release this morning posted on InciWeb: Sheridan, WY – [...]

If you hadn’t had time to notice, the skies cleared considerably today and from the reports this morning things are looking up. I drove up to the roadblock southwest of the town of Big Horn this evening and chatted a little with the man stationed there. He, along with four others have been working the [...]

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 [...]