Mother nature and construction

 The wildfires in our state and Colorado allow smoke drifting our way to change our sunsets.  Last evening this was the view from my front porch as I watched the red sky turn to black.  There is a fire west of Laramie in the area where my parents used to camp and fish near Lake Hattie and Woods Landing.  Many have been evacuated and the fire is not nearly contained and has burned tousands of acres so far.  The rains are being predicted for sometime in the next few days.  We hope so. Below, the after picture of our privacy fence.  It needs to be stained yet and we hope to get a vine on it. 

 This is the "before" picture.  I do have garden pictures to post next, and a better picture of the ladder in the far background, which has become a bed and breakfast for the birds. 

"Life is checkered with shade and sunshine." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(Seems like a lot of shade right now, in spite of the heat and fires.)