"It's an eye brow crinkler...."

Just as a note, we on Catalina are safe from the fires that are plauging the mainland right now, despite there being a fire warning and no flare zone in effect at the moment. Despite that, our little island is enveloped in the smoke from the fires and it smells like the burns in the valley back in Oregon during the fall. Crazy that I would smell it down here, I didn't think it would happen. The sky is a strange color today, a beige really that goes all the way down to the water and has turned it that same color as well so it looks like we're floating in clouds. A surreal thing to be sure.