Monday, April 14.Perfect day! Light winds...no ceiling...low humidity...perfect day for burning!
My brother, Tom, is the City Naturalist and he is in charge of buring the managed prairies in the city. Burnett's Mound is a managed prairie and this year is burning year.
Three years ago I helped him burn and it was a lot of work! This year, I took my kids up to the mound so they could admire their uncle's handiwork. After all, there is an inherant pyrotechnician in all children! Fire is beautiful and curious and mesmerizing. It is kinetic in its most perfect form, moving and jumping and hissing with each breeze. It fills the air with a primal scent, a smell that must have moved the first living things as it does us. I reminds us that the black char that is left in its wake will reincarnate in a few short weeks into verdant green. Three years from now, it will be time to burn again.
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