Burning the field in Cairo Egypt...

The past week like every year around this time the farmers are burning their fields ..

with it's ever growing population, the city of Cairo has become one of the most absolutely gigantic cities in the world, not to mention its busy streets of aging cars, poor quality gasoline and the sewers, that are all way over taxed, it has become one of the most polluted cities in the world, well in competition with a few others week to week,, what makes this time of year particularly weird.. is the burning of the Fields.. definitely not advertised.. but is a site to beheld.. as the city expanded after the change in power.. the city crept into nearby farm lands and were soon engulfed ..now the farms are moving away further into the desert.. but for the several years that i have lived here it has been quite the sight..

awakening at dawn gives you the most grim sight ever for one to witness,, the orange sky glowing in the distance, like the devil himself had torn through the ground, the clouds are eerily lit from beneath, the fire storm rolls and it changes the wind and blots out the strongest, hottest, sun in the dead of summer,on the edge of the Sahara. the flashes of heat that you get are only topped by the falling strings of ash.. like weightless black drinking straws falling from the sky. the burned wheat and grass stalks make the ground look like a war zone.. or even like Armageddon..

Then the smoke arrives, the crippling gaspes for air from young and old, strong and weak. two days in and it seems like the end of days...

one week and the sky is burnt Field yellow with a tint of factory haze brown, and a touch of car exhaust grey.

ahhhhhhh The City !