Showing posts with label sunset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunset. Show all posts

Monday, November 26, 2007

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