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Where the Contrails End

We were not alone in the morning sky as we passed from Nebraska to Colorado recently. Shadows from the contrails of other planes left dark lines on the ground parallel to our direction of flight until they abruptly ended somewhere over eastern Colorado. Other contrail shadows that can be seen crossing our flight path seemContinue reading “Where the Contrails End”

Cirque of the Towers

This part of the Wind River Mountains has fascinated me for years, but I only have ever seen it by air. The cirque is the bowl-shaped circle of peaks in the center of the photo taken a couple of days ago from an airliner. In the 1980’s I flew geologist, Charlie Love over it severalContinue reading “Cirque of the Towers”

Bamboozled

The queue to the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction wound back and forth past exotic decorations to set the imagination astir. However, in one corner, a growth of actual bamboo plants added a feeling of the tropics to the set. The ride itself blended history and fantasy with living touches of reality, that made theContinue reading “Bamboozled”

The Hair of a Queen

I had often admired the wispy, stellar site of Coma Berenices, “Berenice’s Hair,” sparking softly in the clear, dark, winter Nebraska skies of my youth. It is hard to see here in Ocala due to surrounding city lights. I was delighted that it showed up as a faint sprinkling of stars clustered near the lowerContinue reading “The Hair of a Queen”