Mainly this post is to remind those few of you who are interested, that next week is Final Friday Fiction time once more!
However, I also want to share a very rare sighting with you... no not a bird (though I do have my eye on the nesting box in the back yard, wherein, it appears, a pair of sparrows may be in family production mode.
No, I was gazing out the kitchen window a couple of weeks back - one of the (very) rare cloudless days we get here - when this appeared... my heart skipped and my mind tumbled with feelings and thoughts around flying off to places far...
In spite of your mind tumbling, and who knows where the camera was, that is one fine photo.
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That's a great photo ... It reminds me of something. Till many years ago, we used to see such a long trail of smoke (?) being left by a "tiny" object very high up in the sky. We used to be told that it's the Concorde plane! Possibly, it was. Because we no longer see that; now that Concorde is no longer flying.
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DeleteInteresting - I never knew Concorde went to India as I seem to recall Air India refused to buy it. I did find this though: "The 'bird-of-future' touched India several times, but never on a commercial passenger flight. Most of the flights were chartered operating between Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Delhi at the time.", so entirely possible you did see its contrail! (Which are not 'smoke' but water vapour [cloud!] being created from the heat of engine and cold from height.) Yxx
Hi Yamini - Thanks for reply. I should have made this clear. You are right. Concorde never flew to India. What we were seeing high up in the sky was a flight to some other destination overflying India. Probably, it must the London - Sydney flight. Not sure.
DeleteWe saw a raptor doing hovering stuff over our beach a couple of days ago - does that count? Yesterday there was the whumping of military helicopters for a while (it happens every year around Independence Day which is next week). We heard one of your kind of birds quite early this morning and were sort of surprised (we know that some of them are still around, but they were becoming an endangered species). xxxx Mr T
ReplyDeleteMomma wishes she could go fly somewhere. I like her here.
ReplyDeletewow that was close.... and we will use your photo to tell an embarrassing story LOL
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DeleteOh what fun...!!! Yxx
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DeleteIt wasn't close at all - just a very long lens shot and then enlarged in the computer!!! Yxx
That photo represents flying to visit family and friends to me and it makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteReading this standing outside Aberdeen's vaccination centre - about to go in for my jab. (Arrived stupidly early as always). The location is the new TECA conference centre hard by the airport, and the KLM flight from Schipol just flew in, very low overhead...
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YAM my mind's eye went to the very same place....far away places. What beautiful blue Scottish skies
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for the past year, our skies have had very few planes in our area. last month they started flying again and one morning while walking Beau, Bob said LOOK and there were Three like yours at one time, going different directions, East, West and North, no south
ReplyDeleteThat is quite the sight! I don't miss living under the Vancouver runway flight path, but I guess that would be much quieter since the Covid shutdown. We seldom see aircraft here in the middle of nowhere. But we do live right on the US ..drones go over quite frequently and the US Airbase south of us does fly south of us occasionally. Scares the heck out us as they are so LOUD!
ReplyDeleteHow nice to have such a beautiful blue sky day. We hope someday travelling will become routine again.
ReplyDelete.....oh the places we'll go! I can't wait to step on a plane again!!
ReplyDeleteAh, yes, travel. Cousin P. is flying in next Monday for a 10 day visit. We will getting out and about a bit more. Cuz has both her shots, we have had out first. namaste, janice xx
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