a cardboard box on fire

today i was cleaning up in and around the house. as there is no system for delivering garden debris anywhere what we don't compost we burn

while the brush fire was burning down to ashes i cleared out some trash from the storeroom

the biggest item was the cardboard box the refrigerator came in

when there were only warm ashes left of the brush fire i tossed on the big box

it quickly started smoking and soon was in flames

as the box burned and the flames died down some great patterns emerged in the corrugated cardboard ash

so i went and got my S22 and started taking shots

it was very hot so i was worried about the camera overheating and took the shots from a fair distance

even still the camera got quite warm but i hope it is not a problem

i backed away more and continued taking some shots

a gust of wind lifted some of the ash

and the scene was continually changing

within minutes the show was over