Across the Paddock

Dry land Sweltering heat, The perfect fuel For a terrible summer

I took this photo just before Christmas, looking out across a small paddock while visiting my uncle's family with my parents. They live in a small rural community north of Sydney and many of the surrounding towns and suburbs were surrounded by bushfires in the weeks after Christmas. Thankfully my uncle and his family were reasonably far away from it but it's not hard to imagine the kind of conditions firefighters were facing, with so much dry bushland fueling the fires. Hopefully temperatures stay lower for the rest of the summer and the fires die out... it really has been hell on earth.

Photo and haiqua © CJ Levinson 2012-13