Sunset Dreams

Have you ever flown in an airplane at sunset before?

I had the unique opportunity to take a flight out of San Diego at around 5:30 pm a couple of weeks ago.

It was raining on the ground - one of those few days a year that San Diego actually gets precipitation.

The sky looked dreary and bleak all day long, and by the time I was in the plane waiting for takeoff I, too, was in a pretty dreary and bleak mood.

I was leaving home again on another trip, this time over a week long. I was sad to leave my husband

and my dog

and my home

behind.

The plane took off;

I had my usual moment of disorientation as the plane quickly climbed higher in the sky;

and then all of a sudden......

P O O F

we popped out of the clouds like a jack-in-the-box and I found myself surrounded by this:

Simply amazing