A look back at California's fires this fall

Art History in the making:

The colored fog today gives Mother Nature a new palette color--foggy red.
Imagine an Impressionist artist like Claude Monet painting his iconic "Impression, Sunrise" in San Francisco today instead of Le Havre in 1872. Would the term Impressionism have been coined? What would this alternate version of the painting be called--"Sunrise, Smoky"?

I don't think an art movement dubbed "Smokism" would, um, catch fire. And speaking of catching fire, when did Smokey Bear arrive on the scene?

It started in the 1940s as a campaign to prevent man made forest and grassland fires in the US: "Smokey says, Only YOU can prevent forest fires." If only...

Top: Today's version
Bottom: Original Monet