Thanks to a bunch of California fires bringing smoke to the Truckee Meadows, the air is almost unbearably bad. I shouldn't even say "almost." The air here is as bad as I have ever seen it. I do admit, though, the sun looks good through the smoke.





Of course the sun is actually an orange fireball behind the smoke, but the way it photographs without special effects is still rather striking.

I took this rather crude video of the smoke a little while ago: