Fire Season

One of our first "cheery" fires burns happily away.

Some of the colors that accompany the coming of cool weather.

A lonely adolescent merganser makes a pit stop on the pond as he flees the coming of Winter.

It's fire season here in the North Country in more ways than one. On the one hand, with the coming of cool weather, cheery fires are burning in fireplaces and wood stoves all over the region. On the other hand, lots of buildings tend to burn down at this time of year, mainly because of all those cheery fires in fireplaces and wood stoves. That and the electric space heaters. It can be a grim choice here in the Winter, either freeze to death or burn up in a raging inferno that was once your house. We've opted for the second option and have had fires the last three days.