Monday, May 30, 2005

Fire in the sky

London has the most consistently polluted air in the country, if not the entire continent. This is by virtue of our location downwind from a whole lot of nasty industry, as well as the geographic quirks of our land that conspire to trap the same dirty air in a never-ending soup of smog from spring to autumn - and beyond.

But it makes for nice sunsets, dontcha think? Everything has an upside, apparently.

Your turn: The first words that come to mind when you see this are...?

17 comments:

Queen on the run said...

Where's the forest fire?
Those where my first thoughts.
I wouldn't want to breathe that air was my second thought.THen the third was, how beautiful that sky is.. I think you should consider movnig away !!!!

Anonymous said...

Red skies at night !!!

Looks like there's a firestorm headed your way!

Jeremy

Jill said...

The Oakland Hills firestorm of 1991. Sorry, that was my first thought. jk

Photominer said...

Yep, forest fire. Here in BC it was quite a common site last year. Scary, like trouble on the horizon.

Lu said...

Absolutely Gorgeous! If only you could breath in the fresh Autum air....

LuAnn the class clown is spreading joy once again…so I felt the need to share the love tag – you are now it!

L said...

wow... it really does look like there's a forest fire!

Heather said...

Fiery and beautiful! I have a picture of a gorgeous sunset. This pic reminded me of it. I will post it on my blog for you.

Christine said...

It makes me think of fire, too. Oh it is beautiful!

Leanne said...

Where are all the Hot Firemen?
Kinda makes me wonder if this is not only beauty in nature, but mother nature's way of saying that she is burning mad at us for all the stuff we send into the air.
Hmmm food for thought.

OldHorsetailSnake said...

"Think we'll ever get rain?"

Mellie Helen said...

Actually? Made me think of the gemstone known as "Tiger Eye". Beautiful marbled golds and browns and oranges. I remember seeing similar sunsets growing up in *koff koff!* Los Angeles.

Melonie said...

The day after they drop the bomb.

Melonie said...

Honestly, Carmi I believe that West Virginia has an equal amount of pollution if not more than London. We have the highest cancer and asthma rates in the whole country and its gotta be caused by something.

Jef said...

Ooh... that's really nice.

Libby said...

looks like pictures i've seen of an australian brushfire!

Maddie said...

It made me think of a particular brush that I use in Photoshop. The clouds almost look like handwriting in the sky.

Gina said...

Yup, I was with the forest fire people.

Here in Southern California we get the same effect. Natural basin and all that stuff. The most beautiful are when we have raging forest fires. Polluted air equalling great sunsets, that makes me a little depressed.