The mountains are on fire!

I am not kidding!
One minute I am relaxing at Peet's on Main, the next day I find out the mountains are on fire!
This view is from Venice beach, the mountains are about 30 miles in land and the forest on the mountains is on fire. The News was telling me that the fire is 5% contained; does that mean that it is 95% completely out of control? Let's be optimistic and be happy that by now it is 30% containt and it looks like Mt Wilson's observatory and the radio signals (read more here)


America - the land of basketball!


New meets old
Gehry's Beach House
Venice Pier
Beach houses during the golden hour
Seagulls
on a yacht, which is an office, looking at Marina del Rey
Smoke makes nice sunsets! (so does smog pollution for that matter) The closer you get to the mountains, the smokier it gets, and the harder it is to breathe. I also hear it's raining ash!