Grandad's well

Another view of the forest fire. This is right at the western end of it,
where it started and where its swath was narrowest. It's also very near
where my grandfather dug a spring well in about 1930. He lived a thousand
feet or so from this spot and he had a shallow well by his house. But his
neighbours' cows kept breaking through the fence and he was worried they'd
pollute his well. So he found a wet place at some distance and dug out a
spring, making a pool he could draw water from when he needed it. It was
just to the right of this picture.

He stopped using it a few years later, and in later years it was lost. I
found it again fifteen or twenty years ago and dug it out. It is still
flowing today, year-round. It doesn't produce much water, and didn't help
the firefighters a bit.