Into the wild.

Please Eddie Vedder, please write a song about this summer, and this place, and make something bittersweetlybeautiful out of heartbreak.

Yes, there is a forest dying and trees gasping their last and there will be life from the death eventually…

…but it is still death.

The fires are burning a short distance away in our beloved Columbia Gorge. We are fine and safe. But they are burning fierce and burning hot. And according to DEQ, it is not a day for outdoors exploits.

But some people are not meant to be captive indoors for an entire day.