As many of you know, we live in Texas.  Luckily for us, we are not in the areas that have recently been affected by the raging fires on our parched lands:

In this photo, note the town of Kerrville at the very bottom of the image – we are located about 30 miles SOUTH of that town, in the hills.  The fires you see seem to be close, but they are all about 2 hours away from us.

In this last photo, the shading represents what has already burned and the direction the fires are going.

And this is a photo of the fire that hit the town of Bastrop, Texas this past weekend.  It has destroyed around 500 homes, but thus far, no deaths have been reported.

All prayers welcome for those who are living where these fires have struck!