While it would be easy enough to write that the land is burning in California or even in our largest cities, I shall head in another direction.

In the picture above, you should notice some smoke over my left shoulder. This is from a controlled burn in some woods in TyTy, Georgia. Foresters do this every couple of years to get rid of dead fall, nuisance plants and other flammable vegetation such as leaves and pine needles.

Controlled burns are done on high humidity days with little to no wind and the woods are sectioned off road or fire breaks. You also have to back burn so the fire never gets to hot.

If you're burning a hill, you start at the top and work down because it's much more difficult for a fire to go up rather than down.

I don't remember if i caught this bass before or after I went in to help. In either case, I threw it back in as I rarely ate fish at the time.

Here's a short video of some of the burn with a tree acting as a chimney and burning from the inside out near the end.

5 minute freewrite prompt the land is burning.