Day 560 Wildfire

Daily Note

Every day, a photograph, a poem. On our Sunday drive through the wildfire area, this photo also hit hard: Ponderosa Pine are fire resistant— they are tough trees, and can often survive most fires, but the fires of today seem to be stronger, larger, hotter.

Wildfire

Though fire resistant,

even Ponderosa Pine

died in wildfire’s rage;

flames rose and blacken the trunk,

needles burned and fell.

Sheri Edwards 092321 26636521 Poetry/Photography

Photo:

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation

East of Colville Confederated Tribes Agency near Nespelem, Wa

BIA Road 13

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