Why We Build Fire Features in the Middle of Summer

It is a warm evening in late August. Dinner is finished, the conversation is good, and everyone is settled into the patio you spent real time and money getting right. Then the sun slips behind the trees. The air cools the way it always does here, faster than people expect. Within twenty minutes, someone goes looking for a sweatshirt, the group grows quiet, and one by one, your guests drift back inside.