Category Archives: Scenery

The four-and-a-half hour flight was enjoyable because I sat with two friends. Early in the flight, they gave us Plane Cookies, and I stuck one to our window and left it there for the entire flight. Our pilot told us … Continue reading →

Friday the 13th came on a Thursday this month. It rained all day and most of the evening, but as I was eating supper, the sky to the west cleared, the sun beamed through beneath the clouds and the light … Continue reading →

On Thursday afternoon, we drove to Clingmans dome, the highest point in the National Park — and in the state of Tennessee. There’s a tower on the summit of the mountain and a steep half-mile path up to it from … Continue reading →

Beginning late on Monday, January 31, and continuing into early Wednesday morning, over 20 inches of snow fell on Chicagoland. This was the third heaviest snow fall for this area in recorded history. Wind gusts near 50 mph made things … Continue reading →

The sky to the south was putting on more of a show than the sky to the west this night. Here’s our motel from the end of the dock.