Sydney goes Mad Max...

A few years ago on our way back from a wine weekend in Santa Barbara county, Liz and I drove through a very thick fire smoke haze in Ventura that looked this bad.  It was seriously one of the spookiest things I've ever experienced.  Went from bright sunny daylight to hellish Mordor in minutes. Half an hour down the freeway we were back to gorgeous sunshine.

We didn't have that scary face staring back at us though...

More pix of Sydney here