Conejo Post

I couldn’t resist using the title of a 1958 hit by the Platters, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” to describe what is happening outside today.

The sky looks so clear and blue, and I don’t smell smoke or anything else in the air, but I am all congested since taking my long morning walk.  Also, my eyes are sort of squinty, like some kind of allergy is going on.  I am assuming that I must be feeling some of the affects of the Guiberson Fire a few hills away and will limit my outside activities for the rest of the day.

As for the song, I will change the lyrics a bit, from “When a lovely flame dies, smoke gets in your eyes,” to “When the raging flames die, smoke gets in your eyes.” 

I think I like the original better!   (A bit of trivia, the song, by Otto Harbach and Jerome Kern, was written in 1933 for the musical, Roberta.)

Posted by Janna Orkney