Next to traffic and taxes, flames are a rest-assured fact of life here in southern California. Friend and fantastic web designer Zoey said that from her house, it looked like Glendale’s Forest Lawn Mortuary was on fire (!!!) so I scarfed down my food and checked it out with Ingrid. Watching dusk fall away,  I wandered Atwater Village in my car, thinking “high ground high ground high ground.”

Turned out, high ground was the I-5 onramp. Braced my lens by wedging it into the corner of the open sunroof. Just barely squeaked an angle between massive power lines and messy foreground foliage.  And juuust enough light in the sky to balance the lit cross with the expanding Station Fire’s flames.

And then it was dark!