Laura Watched

This was an interesting night. We were in the living room and thought we smelled a campfire. Turned out to be more like a house fire. Our backyard neighbors' chimney had caught fire and by the time we got out there, the crowd was pretty large. It was a Sunday night, so there were lot's of folks from the church around. The people who lived in the house were standing by patiently, not distraught, just waiting for the whole ordeal to be over with. It wasn't an inferno, just a bunch of smoke and a few flames licking out from under the awnings. We'd lived in our house a little over two years and but that night was the first time we'd met those neighbors. Not very sociable, we are.

Of course there's not much about a house fire in this photo. Except perhaps the isolated and exposed feeling you would have if you were watching your own house burn.