Smoke (anyone)?

Here, at our elevated altitude, we are accustomed to sparkling, crystal-clear views. An outbreak of humidity, rain, snow, or mist is a rare event, and provides a curious experience, where the landscape is altered, becomes dimensional, reveals unexpected depth.
But smoke?
Same effect in terms of revealing the depth of various layers of different land forms, but somehow less convincing as a healthy and beneficial, even if controlled and managed, event. This, below, is allegedly that.

A controlled and managed "burn".
Some of the biggest and most devastating fires in our area resulted from controlled and managed burns.