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Inside, he used the power washer and a shop vac to clean out ash that had collected in the windowsills.

And it feels wrong that some of the aftermath is deceptively pretty, like the delicate flurries of white ash accumulating on windowsills like fresh snow.

Three months later, they were spotted on a windowsill in the winter by ecologist Daisy Cadet and her mother Ashleigh in what scientists have described as an "improbable event" that "defies rational explanation".

“The glass itself possesses a water-like quality,” she said, adding that she likes to keep the vases on a windowsill, where sunlight passes through and casts shadows that “dance and shift like ripples.”

On her windowsill, Al Holden, her son, smiles in a baby portrait, all chubby cheeks and tiny fists.