The Aerial Horizon

North of Zion in the Dixie National Forest, a fire rages along an isolated ridge line. Smoke fills the surrounding valleys in such a way that it begins to look like weather, clouds and fog trapped by the high terrain, but for the telltale marker of the smoke emanating from a single point source before flowing out into the mass of “cloud.” This is some of the most beautiful landscape in the west and the possibility of careless destruction is saddening.