I am all cried out! I went to see my Mom today and she and my Sister-in-law got to talking about Miss Kitty (their cat) that recently had to be put down. They needed to talk about her and Mom said they've been doing that all week. So the three of us sat around and cried. Anytime anyone cries, I'm right there with them...apparently I'm getting real good at it. My Sister-in law has been working for the past year (as a volunteer) putting together the family memory book for the Fallen Fire Fighters Foundation's yearly memorial service. Every year at FEMA in Emmitsburg they have a week-end long series of events to memorialize fire fighters who have lost their lives in the line of duty in the previous year. She brought out a copy of that to show me and off we went with more tears. The book is beautiful and she did a fantastic job designing it and laying it out. The families will be blown away when they see it. I couldn't read all of the biographies of all those men and women that were written by their families. It would have broken my heart completely. I read a few and Patti told me stories of others. Needless to say my nose is red and my eyes are puffy. I'm a mess.
The picture is of a forest fire in the Bitterroot National Forest in (Montana) August 6, 2000. It is savagely beautiful.
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