Grass Fire

We live on the edge of Shakopee now.  I really love that.  I just adore that I can wash dishes and look out my window one way and see a large field with a hill and cows.  Yet, we’re still in town.  As much as I thought I would really like to live in the country someday, I’ve discovered I’m too much of a pansy for that now.  True story.  I’ve become (gasp!) “City-ified.”  But that’s not the point of this post.  I can go on and on about what I like living in a suburban setting another time…

today my post is about fires.

We’ve noticed that there have been a couple times now that we can see billowing smoke just over the houses.  I mean–truly BILLOWING.  Actually, it appears to be in the houses, which leads me to be concerned that there is a house on fire, but it always turns out to be the field just past the houses.  I guess it’s that time of year to burn the grass down.  Or maybe it was an accident.  I’m not sure.

But today there was another one and it gave off a hefty amount of smoke all afternoon and into the evening.  When I finished teaching it was dark and I noticed that the smoke was now just over the hill and made the smoke glow orange.  It was the coolest sight.

I tried to take a picture of it, but it’s hard to capture.  It was billowing more upward just before this but the wind pushed it to the side by the time I got this picture.

Hopefully everyone is okay and it was contained the way they wanted it…

Notice the red light just next to the white beacons of light? That’s the casino. 🙂 It’s also very pretty at night.

And this is to give you a better idea of how dark it really was out–this was my first attempt at a picture… apparently I should not use my flash so it highlights the tree in my way… Haha!