July 29th, 2014 ........ started off as a regular smokey day in Yellowknife..... 







The highlight of the day began around 5:15........downtown workers were starting to transit to various places following their workday....I was standing outside waiting for Rochelle to pick me up and I see that the sky is taking on various shades and hues outside of the regular pall of brown / grey smoke.....and I'm thinking that I've not experienced a rain storm or significant rain fall in Yellowknife ..... "I wonder what this is going to be like?"

Just as I'm getting into the car I see that the sky has assumed a different weather 'profile' every 90 degrees or so....we start making our way towards home and the skyline has noticeably changed at every stoplight....we see people everywhere looking up at the sky, cameras in hand.... wondering....thinking.....'this might get interesting!'

The sky behind us is pale pink yet black looms ahead of us and various other colours exist in our peripheral vision.....

Thunder precedes the lightning which precedes the rain....but down it comes....and we are thankful because it is so dry and we all want the fires to cease their burning in the territories and we're all tired of smoke....

The colours are bizarre to say the least....















 Rochelle took this outside our apartment building.....the storm is just starting.

I'm so glad someone took photos of the 'red lightning'

Probably the most bizarre aspect of this whole storm was that the sky turned completely black...which obviously means the sun was completely blocked....that in itself felt very peculiar since we still had direct sun until 10:30 or so....

I'd like to say everything ended happily.....and what I mean by that is that there was more smoke the next day just like one would encounter as they put out a campfire - it tends to produce a lot of smoke afterwards... however, it was a welcome rain and we managed another day of smoke and fire.....my conclusive thoughts on the subject is that the only references to smoke and fire I am receptive to come from the following songs....and I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting right now.....peace and love my friends, peace and love :) 

Smoke From a Distant Fire
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple 
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - various artists 
We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel 
Light My Fire - The Doors