Burning Bastrop

Bastrop is the name of a city in Central Texas about 50 miles east of Austin. The Guyton Ranchette, a small ranch owned by kin of Corrie that we stayed at in March of 2010, is in a small town called Paige, and is about ten miles from Bastrop.

Bastrop's been in the news lately because of wildfires burning through the area. Believe me, if we still lived in Austin I'd have gathered my own photographs and posted about this by now. Still, any of my own photos wouldn't look anything like the following picture, which must have been taken by a firefighter. Outrageous:



This next picture looks like it's taken looking east on HWY 290, the hypotenuse from Austin to Houston in the Austin-San Antonio-Houston triangle. The horizons in Texas seem bigger when you're there, but here you can get the idea of what would normally be rolling green hills kissing a dynamic sky is dominated by smoke:



This last picture is the skyline and the fire off in the east, possibly taken from a hill in Zilker Park:



We're hoping the Ranchette is fine, and since we haven't heard anything to the contrary, we're confident.