Ah, these fine particles!

If it's impossible to perceive fine pollution particles individually, it's enough to take a look at Park City's mountain views these days.

They're all blurry looking as if it were drizzling all over, but the weather in the Rocky Mountain region is staying stubbornly dry with perhaps only 5 hours of steady rain since the end of May. In the meantime, the entire West Coast is burning.

As of yesterday, there were more than 40 major fires from California, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Washington that are converging over Park City and can clearly - pardon the pun - be attributed to our smoky views out.

Unlike last September, it's just the smoke without the acrid smell of burnt trees and grass, but this might come before it's all over. In the meantime, we keep on breathing these fine micro-particles, day in, day out, not quite certain that they're also killing us, slowly I hope!