Sometimes they were due to a careless camper. At other times, they were started by sparks from power lines taken down by high winds. In either case, the wildfires during the dry season would ravage the countryside, threatening homes, farms, vineyards, and lives.
This wildfire season was no exception, and thousands of acres burned from the out-of-control fires. But then the unexpected happened and a very unseasonable downpour, the likes of which rarely came during the hot, dry summer months, doused the fires, saving countless acres from devastation.
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Written for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt.
I’m a senior citizen
Time to take the old clunker for a tune-up.
I look up at the night sky and see the full 
