Wood Smoke; Do you love it or hate it?

Wood Smoke; Do you love it or hate it? 04/14/2010

Walking back over the boardwalk of the lake tonight, in more of a hurry because the autumn cold night air was closing in quickly and I wanted to get Reg back to our van and the hot curry beef bean and vegetable braise I had waiting for us there, before he became chilled. Then as we rounded a corner, what might have been pleasurable to some people, like la flor dominicana, or the memory of a warm loving home on a chilly night, was to me just something that made me recoil and think "smoke = risk to my health".
I decided then it was time we headed north away from the cold nights, a little earlier than we have planned.

I need to be a little fussier about smoke than most, I have mild CF and I have worked very hard to get my lungs clear of congestion and infections that plagued me for most of my life, I don't take my new found health for granted. Yes the wiffs of smoke from these chimneys looks pretty, but ...I'm out of here tomorrow morning, as much as I love this area.

All day I had been complaining that I could smell wood smoke , today the air was still, and being at the foot of mountains, smoke tends to hang around on the valley floor when the air is stagnate.

With the nights getting colder now there will be more wood fires burning, so we begin our move northward to the warmer climate for winterJ.

I once loved autumn for its seasonal colour changes in the deciduous foliage, glorious sunny days, rarely too hot or cold and less days of rain than in springtime, but now I just like to trek north in Autumn and avoid as much of the necessary fire hazard clearing burns and home wood fires., as I can.