It's snowing ashes

This was at 11 a.m.

We don't have forest fires nearby, but we're getting the smoke and even ashes from Eastern Washington where the fires are so bad.

Elise and I woke up at 5:30 and smelled smoke inside the apartment.  It was as if we has a fire in the next room.  I finally went out on the balcony and saw the pieces of ash falling and smelled it.

We are lucky compared to those folks nearer the fires and the ones in the flooded areas.  We do need some rain though.

We went on to Graysen's first gymnastics class this morning.  She loved it and is in a sweet group of 5 little girls and 1 boy.  She's the one in pink. in the middle.

Graysen told me all about where the ashes are coming from.  "A very baby skunk!  He was playing with 4th of July fireworks."