Arizona from the Air
It's been a rough week. There were plenty of bright spots, like our dinner with Meryl and James last Saturday, birthday dinner for Becca on Tuesday, lots of Olympics on TV, and getting paid for all the work I've done on a website. But other events have left me feeling frustrated, beaten down, and tired. I will spare you the details, mainly because this blog is not an appropriate place for the details, but suffice it to say that I am VERY glad that Friday has arrived.
Instead, here are some photos I took last month when I went to California for a day. The weather was brilliantly sunny on the return leg from Ontario, CA to Phoenix, and I had a lot of fun taking photos out the window.
It's always interesting to see the land use patterns in the desert. The contrast of bright green and surrounding tan and brown is striking, especially when it's as bright and sunny as it was that day.
When we flew over this cloud, and the view was really strange! You could see the blurry shadow of our airplane, surrounded by a halo. No tricks -- this photo captures exactly what it looked like. I'd never seen this phenomenon before.
As we neared Phoenix, I noticed we were basically paralleling I-10! I watched the tiny cars move along for quite a while.
Hello, Phoenix. I enjoyed my half hour in your airport.
Time to focus on something fun, like the GT AE viewbook!
side note if its a rainbow surrounding the shadow its liquid vapor. If it's a halo, its frozen crystals. Yes we notice.
PS phoenix kicks butt. Who knew they grew so many olive trees there?
AFA following I-10 the arrival is the SUNSS 6. http://www.airnav.com/depart?http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/1002/00322SUNSS.PDF
right around the mountains and follows I-10, until the breakoff on a 340 +/- heading to join the final for 7L or 7R. http://www.airnav.com/depart?http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/1002/00322IL7R.PDF from the looks of the rental car pavillion parking lot, and the hold short line at the end of the runway, it was 7r now you know.