It's just like this sometimes

There's an actively growing 500-acre wildfire about ten miles north of us right now. I'm not particularly concerned; there are crews on it, it's on the other side of a river and it's also north of the municipal firebreak (a stripe of cleared land that surrounds the town as a fire control measure). However, it's producing a vaguely thunderhead-looking plume of smoke over the top of the hill to the north, which right now - this is at about 11:30 p.m. - is also coinciding with a spectacular sundog surrounding the sun, which is below the horizon but (in the way of the Arctic in mid-June) not very far below and not for very long.





The color correction on my phone camera makes it look darker out there than it really is. It's actually broad daylight, and the sundog stands out a bit more on the camera than it does in real life. Still a really cool effect, though.