Flying home to A’dam the first weekend in October, from Dulles, we pretty much followed the coastline as the sun set. I was happy the clouds cleared enough to give me the view above :-). If you don’t recognize it, just look at a map of the main cities north of DC as you travel up the US east coast. Or look at the metadata in the large-screen or full version of the blog. 🙂
A trifecta: the NJ counties of Hudson & Bergen plus the County of New York. Which, if you’re curious, sits in the city of NY and the state of NY, so I guess it’s kind of a trifecta in its own way too. Hmm…
The Calfire site tells me that the Picket Fire started on August 21 and was 100% contained on the 7th of September. When my friend Howard sent me these photos of its smoke billowing near Mt Saint Helena on the 27th of August, he said residents in Santa Rosa could smell the smoke from it, but not in Sebastopol. I keep fingers crossed for a quiet rest of the fire season throughout North America, not only near my once and future home in SR ;-).
Coming back to NL from Chicago in May, we took off into a bit of a rain storm with low clouds, so I grabbed some views of the sprawling city before it vanished beneath the clouds as we climbed. Below, taken very shortly after the one above, you can get a bit more sense of the Lake Michigan shoreline off to the east as the plane banks to head northeast and we’re looking pretty much due east.
(so much world, so little time....) 