The only large fire in Montana was fully contained yesterday but Missoula had smoke yesterday afternoon and we had it here this morning. If I didn’t know it was smoke, I was say it was just hazy skies. I’m thankful we have had so little fire activity this summer, but the effects make for the shadowy, blue mountain views that I enjoy.

Early this afternoon, the wind started, the rain started and the temperature dropped from 78 to 68 in the last hour – the smoke will get washed out with this nice, cool, front – and hopefully all of the thunderstorms will have enough rain to keep any fires from starting.