Gordon: Thanks for your thoughts and words. Other than being a bit smoky, everything in LA is returning to normal.

Our 4th of July fireworks "show" last night consisted of sitting on my son's patio and watching a distant northern ridge smolder in flickering orange. From the other side of the ridge huge billows of orange cloud rose into the sky from the dangerous part of the fire now raging on Santa Clara land - destructive, but nature's drama on display.