Today’s mystery question is: What city is this, as photo’d on 5 August??

In August, raging forest fires smoked the air all across our state. Folks with asthma and breathing problems were advised to stay indoors. It was not pretty and pretty awful. More so for those who lost property, of course.

Last week’s mystery was all about apples! There are some 175,00 acres of apple orchards in Washington, yielding 2.5 tons of that juicy fruit. According to the Washington Apple Growers website, the most popular are Red Delicious, Golden Delicous, Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith, Braeburn, Honeycrisp, Cripps Pink and Cameo. Personally, my favorite is Pink Lady.

Not naming winners today, sorry, because I’m writing this a week early and today I’m off to the Northwest Regional Genealogy Conference in Arlington. See you there!