The TV news is full of details about the wildfires in California. One fire is a few miles from my former home. Santa Clarita is in the headlines and I lived about fifty miles north, in Lancaster. Fire on both sides of Highway 14 and that is the major route between Los Angeles and towns of Palmdale, Lancaster, Littlerock, Pearblossom, etc., in the “high desert.” (Click the image to enlarge for better viewing.)