I was out a little after 8 PM. I first encountered a faint trace of wood smoke at Helen St. & Indian Way. The breeze was blowing to the northwest this evening. I expected to find the wood smoke back in the Poplar-Swan horseshoe. It was faintly smoky in that area. My nose was getting irritated and tingly. The source was not back there. I lost the wood smoke on the west side of Silver Lake. I picked it up again by the dock. The wood smoke was strongest in front of a house on the east side of Reardon, 2nd or 3rd in from the corner of 19th. There was light wood smoke in front of the residence. I saw some chairs in the backyard. I did not see a fire. I cannot pinpoint it to any house. It was nearby.
The distance from where I first smelled the wood smoke to where I tracked it is close to 1/2 mile. A lot of people do not understand that wood smoke can travel far from where it is produced. Wood smoke does not stay confined to the property of the burner. It blows out of the burner's yard and into the lungs of everyone around him, even people a half-mile away.