... she has been getting a little restless lately and spending a lot of time looking at birds flying around the yard ... she slipped out of the house for a while and I searched for her in vain ... then I got a text from at the airport with a photo he had just taken of a very cool jet about to depart on runway 21 ... sure enough Katie was at the controls and she had even changed the N number ... must have been a good flight as she is now curled up in one of her condos with a permanent smile on her face.
The photo below is NE of Flagstaff looking to the north over the San Francisco Volcanic field and the NW portion of the Painted Desert. I'm not sure if the cone in the foreground has a name, probably just a number, but above and to the left of it is
Strawberry Crater which I have photographed extensively from the air and plan to go there on the ground later this spring if it is accessible ... the prominence of the cone is only 476 feet ... the whiteish line running bon a diagonal through the image just below Strawberry is a power transmission line that I think comes in from the
Cholla Power Plant at St Joseph City. The history of the power plant is worth a read; two of the four units have closed down and the remaining two are scheduled for closure in 2025.
A great weekend and in not that many hours Monday will begin with coffee and friends ... have a beautiful day ... keep breathing and smiling ... enjoy the life you are granted!
Cheers,
Ted
O you who are looking downward with still faith
sitting with unlighted candles in the house of life, and
you surrounded by the noise of the crowded world
with its cruelty and haste, and you unloved one with
starving heart, and you who have failed, sitting beside
the ashes of grandeur that is past---
You, all of you, shall yet be filled, though I know not
how, and the dream shall one day meet you face to
face as a thing that is real, and you will embrace it
caressingly, as this morning light caresses the waking
earth.
excerpt from In the Morning Twilight by Max Ehrmann
