Smoke filled sky at sunset

This photo was taken near sunset yesterday, May 1st and bodes no good for Southern California.

The tanker plane is coming in for the evening from a brush fire in Banning CA, 40 miles East of here over 3000 acres burned so far and we have hot, dry, windy conditions today, might be contained by Saturday.

There is another larger brush fire burning North of Los Angeles near Camarillo. Another much smaller one in Jurupa, 15 miles Northeast.

This is VERY early for fire season but here we are after a dry Winter and not nearly enough rainfall to keep the hillsides from becoming crunchy tinder.

Fire season normally ends around Thanksgiving, this is going to be a long Summer.

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Lovely Luggage Labels

Do you remember riding the train to a Vermont ski resort and returning with new labels on your solid sided luggage to show where you had been?

Me either…only in White Christmas, but wouldn’t it be nice?
Now with Vintage Luggage Labels you can dream of (or fondly remember) a whirlwind Summer touring the globe!
Luggage labels not only showed where the well-traveled tourist had been; they also served as an advertisement for railroads, airlines, ocean liners, and hotels. They became widely used during the end of the nineteenth century, and soon developed into an art form. During the middle of the twentieth century tourism had slowed down, and so did the production of luggage labels, making vintage travel and luggage labels valuable and sought after by collectors.

Lots of Lovely Luggage Labels are still available in good condition through ebay and Etsy as well as Antique shops . Reproductions are plentiful so if you are searching for originals be aware of this otherwise if they are for a project of scrapbooking or you would just like the artwork but in stable modern materials get the reproductions,the color and graphics are very well done.

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Skywatch Friday Cloud layers

These are from Sunday this week as the sky produced ever changing scenes throughout the day. The air remained still and warm at ground level.

These little well formed clouds scooted by in front of the remains of a fog bank in the middle of the day, this view was to the West/Southwest.

Only a few degrees over to the West we had a bright Blue sky full of contrails.

Today we’ve had a cold rainy storm move in overnight and seen pouring rain, hail and thunder in the valley with snow falling to the 2500 ft level in the local mountains.

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Where we welcome and thank Alan from Yogi’s Den for becoming the Host of Skywatch Friday!