The strange saga of John and Terry Lynn Barton just keeps getting more extravagant. At the risk of being run out of the pun-writer's union, what we have here is a dichotomy of trees and underbrush – the sublime and the ridiculous. First the sublime; there is a devastating fire of more than 137,000 acres raging through the forests in the northeast corner of Colorado. More than 2500 heroic souls are placing themselves in harm's way to preserve life and land, both humankind's and nature's. Nearly 9000 souls have been evacuated. And the associated costs are mounting to a...