Just a small sample... there were many many more looking like this... but the cool
change came through and amazingly alongside these fried blooms are freshly opened roses
this morning! We are so lucky to have nothing worse than this to show for such a
catastrophic day of heat and fires.

This morning a huge limb came down on our ancient gum tree... in this photo you can see
evidence of a limb that came down yesterday from a lemon scented gum... only visible in
this image is the top few twiggy branches. I couldn't get the entire limb into a photo.

Only 55 fires listed this morning, down from 184 last night. The wind has changed
to the east, we are so thankful that didn't happen yesterday or we would have been
in the firing line.