Brandin' Iron dinner and Forsyth Trail walk

 The kids gave us a gift card to the Brandin' Iron steakhouse in Pine Valley.  We tried to go earlier in the summer, but that just happened to be the day that the big fire started up there and they called to say they were closed.  Now they are open again and we had a wonderful meal on Friday night!  Afterwards we drove around some seeing more of the fire destruction and then went over to the Forsyth Trail and took a walk.  We only went up about a mile because it kept threatening to rain (it rained hard while we were eating dinner) and because it was going to get dark.  But in that mile we saw lots of different levels of the fire damage.  It was very burned near the trailhead, but when we got up a mile there was quite a bit of green left, especially along the stream.  And there was a beautiful rainbow glowing across the valley at the first of the walk too.  It was nice and cool because of the rain.  The burned part got kind of creepy feeling as it got dark.  It felt like a Halloween forest of black tree skeletons.  But, the sunset came and made it pretty again.  I'm glad to see that some things weren't as badly damaged as I thought they had.  There are hints of green coming up in many places.  It will be a long time for the trees to come back, but until then there will at least be some green.