Sun Up, Background Smoke

There are wild fires north of us in British Columbia and south of us in California.  Here in Oregon we are getting smoke, though I certainly do not understand the physics of the weather pattern.  Local lore in Vermont is that the weather comes from west to east.  Of course, now that I think of it, occasionally there is a storm that comes off the southern waters off Florida that causes real devastation.

Anyway, this was the sun this morning out our balcony window.

The phone camera did an okay job, but the light part in the middle was totally red-orange.