Smoky sun redux

Smudged
London, ON
July 2021
This photo originally shared on Instagram

The smoke from the wildfires on the other side of the province no longer hangs over #ldnont.

But that's only because a cold front moved through the region. The fires themselves still burn far away. The planet isn't any better off than it was the moment I took this photo.

For the record, London's city council declared a climate emergency 23 months ago. As far as I can tell, plans to widen one of the city's main north-south arterial corridors - Wonderland Road - from four lanes to six remain on the books. It will likely be the most expensive roadworks project in the city's history. Some emergency.

Anyway, I offloaded the photos off my Nikon, and this is what the sun looked like before thunderstorms cleared the air. So the sun no longer looks like this. From here, anyway. It's a different story elsewhere.

But the traffic engineers say we'll be able to get home 90 seconds faster once the road is widened.

In our cars.

Some emergency.

I'll keep the camera close by, because I suspect smokey skies - and far worse - will be a normal thing going forward.

These are photos I wish I never had to take. Yet I feel I have to.

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