Greyscale, when I was in the midwest earlier this summer my eyes just kept soaking up all the green. You don't notice how brown everything is until you go somewhere else for a while. And to be fair, it's always this brown in September - but this year it started getting brown in April!
Cocolion, I'm really hoping we can make it to the wet season without any more big fires, but it could be another month or two until we start getting real rain...