Usually, each spring and fall I get a burn permit from the town office and spend an evening tending the fire. I did last night. It's basically just a pile of brush that has accumulated over the last few months. Last night's fire took care of our discarded Christmas tree, limbs from trees that had fallen over the winter and the remnants of last summer's garden, especially the corn stalks. By 8:30, it was all but out, leaving only smoking ash. This weekend, I'll remove the ashes and do a second rototilling to ready the area for a planting. I wouldn't say I was a tree-hugging environmentalist. I recycle as much as I can, and I just refer to this as an other example. All this crap is back to mother earth now. In the old days, we just raked the leaves to the driveway and lit her up. Can't do that anymore. Everything is by regulation.
Some might take issue with my burning.
All I'll say is...
Get over it!
The photo is alive with the dancing flames.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy watching small fires burn. But you are right, it's rare to see them anymore.
ReplyDeletehere you can burn whenever you want. we have danger level days depending on winds where they'd rather you didn't burn. otherwise it's very common to see a big fire or a huge plume of smoke in the distance and we all just assume someone is burning.
ReplyDeleteHere burning is absolutely forbidden from march to october .
ReplyDeleteI like the scent of such fires , and your pic is very strong.
I like the smell of burning leaves, especially in the fall. I used to have some neighbors who would burn a fire every night in their yard and sit around it drinking and smoking until the wee hours. Apparently they didn't realize what they were doing was against the law until a fire truck showed up one night after another neighbor reported them. I have to admit I was a little relieved because I had noticed some embers blowing into the trees that hung over my house!
ReplyDeleteEvery spring I get to collect several wheelbarrow loads of sticks and twigs from our lawn. Our town picks up these piles if they are tied in string so burning is unnecessary. This activity is a start of another growing season.
ReplyDeleteglad you do it legally and carefully. that's all i ask (of my neighbors!)
ReplyDeleteIt all goes into large bags here and is picked up by the city, composted and then redistributed in the spring to anyone who wants some rich additive for their garden.
ReplyDeleteYour fire has made a lovely photo!
ReplyDeleteWe would run your sorry butt into the hoosegow down here in blue state Connecticut.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievably sharp and bright fire picture.
ReplyDeleteGreetings,
Filip
Burn, baby, burn! I hope you did not let that good fire go to waste, but thought to put dangle a few marshmallows over the flames!
ReplyDeleteA good fire from time to time is a welcome thing.
ReplyDeleteNice fire shot.
ReplyDeleteFire is a natural way of regenerating a forest. You get a green thumbs up for this.
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