Welcome to the first and rarest juxtaposition of two SkyPix categories: Burnscapes and Water Works. If this looks like a grim scene, it was. Smoke from several devastating regional and local wildfires, mixed with blowing dust raised off west Texas and New Mexico by the same high winds that fanned the flames, finally settled into the near-sunset inversion layer over Lake Thunderbird. Itself muddied not by rain and flood, the lake turned reddish, as it often does, from wind-whipped wave action on the red clay and sand of the shallow areas.
Norman OK (14 Mar 25) Looking NW
35.2299, -97.3015