Evening at Ashley Pond after the Las Conchas Fire

Steve Tenbrink

Steve writes: “I took this at Ashley Pond soon after we were allowed back in town after the Las Conchas Fire in 2011. Note the smoke still hovering over the mountains and the sun shining through the smoke. It felt surreal.” July 6, 2011.

Ed. note: A related interesting tidbit is this. If you open up Google Earth, choose the imagery timeline, and choose the July 2011 imagery (the most recent at the time of this writing), you can actually see smoke and flames from the Las Conchas Fire in the mountains northwest of town.