When we visit the central coast, especially Pismo Beach up to San Luis Obispo area and beyond, I love driving through the wide open spaces a little bit inland where there are many vineyards and ranches in the area. I feel a bit nostalgic lately because we won't be going up there over Thanksgiving like usual due to Covid and so many places being closed.
I was reading about the Lake Hughes fire today, which is north of Los Angeles and every year for the past three years i believe, there has been a fire in one of the mountain ranges as we travel from our area to the Central Coast. In our area but not in the mountains here, there has been the Apple Fire - another destructive fire burning through the forests that is still not totally contained.
Hope all is well in your world. We are having monsoonal type weather whcih brings not only heat but lots of humidity and in some places thunder storms.