Colorado is dry, dry, dry, dry. The sky in Boulder is hazy because of all the forest fires currently blazing in the state, which are all far enough away for us to feel safe, in a nervous sort of way. Our main source of water is Rocky Mountain snowmelt, but the mountain snowpack never got above about 50% of normal this year. Boulder Creek, which is the main waterway through town and is more like a small river than a creek, looks reasonably healthy unless you realize that it should now be approaching its annual flood stage, and it's nowhere near that. It's at about the right depth for late September, not June. We're praying for rain -- so far without much luck.