I just pulled this picture of the wildfires in the Smoky Mountains from Bridgette Edmond’s blog, FROGGY LIFE 78 BOOKS & ART. When I was growing up in Ohio my family often visited those beautiful mountains. I am just stunned by this picture. I can’t imagine how awful the devastation is. And at the same time I’m just as stunned by how drawn I am to the dark beauty of the picture.
Here’s a couple more…
(Lord! That is so sad!)
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Please pray for rain and the beginning of healing for this disaster. Do send all your loving thoughts and vibes their way. The last I heard there have now been ten people confirmed dead in Tennessee.
Impromptu Promptlings 
The first picture you posted was taken by a friend of my daughter.
Thank you all for the prayers for the people in that area. My daughter is one of them. She lives just 20 minutes from Lake Lure, where the first fires were started. Sadly, it was arson.
She sent me many pictures. For many days they could barely see the sun because of the smoke. I live five hours east of the area. Some days even we had smoke from the fires.
She and her family came home for Thanksgiving. My little granddaughter had to be put on three nebular treatments daily, plus a round of prednisone because her little lungs were so weekend by the smoke.
My thoughts and prayers continue for the many families affected by the senseless fires in the Great Smokey Mountains area. Ironic name now, isn’t it?
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I hope your granddaughter is doing better now, though I suppose it will take a while for all that smoke to clear out of there. Was your daughter’s home damaged at all? Please have her tell her friend that I was absolutely mesmerized by that picture. I probably sat and looked at it for a good five minutes. I just couldn’t separate the beauty and the horror of it. Thanks, G-amma-D for stopping by and filling us in. And yes, it is very ironic. It will take so long for things to even begin to heal there.
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Ty for all your kind words, they are appreciated. I am still in shock, deeply hurting with this. Ty ty ty such beauty, gone, but it will heal in time. My heart will mend as well.
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Watching nature heal is such an exercise in patience. The pines around our cabin in the Uintah mountains have been destroyed by a beetle infestation. There was nothing to be done but cut them down and burn ’em. Our ground there is almost naked now save for a few Quakin’ Asps. It will never look the same in our lifetime. All we can do is remember and anticipate…right?
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All those poor animals!!
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Really heart breaking, isn’t it… Where will they all go? They’ll be bugging humans and mistreated because of it. Hate that!
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Like you, I find the first picture both frightening and spectacularly beautiful. Thank heaven for the rains that helped, but people still can’t get to their homes for fear of mudslides.
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Yes, I think it’s going to be a mess for a long, long time. It’s been more than two years since the fires and mudslides in Colorado and our adult mission team at church is still going over to work periodically. In fact, they went in September again. So much to clean up and rebuild.
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I didn’t know about this. I don’t know what to say…
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It’s awful, isn’t it… Such a mesmerizing picture to me…
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You’ve been there – it must hit you harder… The worst of fire is that it looks so beautiful…
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Yes, in a horrible sort of way… 😦
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Fires are so devastating. Areas like this are hard to control fires in. Sending much love and healing their way.
We were just driving through an area yesterday where fires ravaged the hills years ago. Still stark. The loss of life is tragic, as is the loss of property. There are already bushfire warnings here in preparation for what they believe will be high risk this summer due to the unseasonably wet and warm winter and spring.
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I have several family members with homes in the area. My cousin’s house is fine, not sure yet about a niece’s house and a nephew’s house. My cousin said that 700 houses were burned in her area. Trees are down, electrical wires are down, and cars are burned out. Who knows about the wildlife yet. So sad. So very sad. The fire began on Chimney Tops (the irony!) I think which is where my husband and I first hiked together in the Smokey Mt. We were back there just this July and enjoyed that trail so much. It will take much healing.
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Was there a couple times when I was growing up. I’ve always wanted to get Drollery there to see that part of the country. Guess I waited too long. It will take a long time for it to heal. We have a cabin in the Uintahs and have been through two fires in the past 20 years. It still doesn’t look like the same place…
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I will definitely be sending my prayers to them, I heard about this and it’s truly devastating.
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I remember driving up through Yellowstone after their fire and how much damage there was. But these mountains are so densely packed in there it’s going to be so much worse. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
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anytime and it looks terrible, I can only imagine in person.
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