On our way to Charlotte.
I love to fly....
So many things to see that one can't see otherwise....
Our route was very similar to last year's.
The western end of Lake Erie.
Hmmm, what's this? Similar to things I saw later that morning that I was pretty darn sure were strip mines, but ... lighter. And we don't have strip mines around here. I'll bet this is a gravel pit. Which is just another word for strip mine, I guess, only the product isn't coal. Or copper. Or whatever else counts as "mining".....
Here we are, east of downtown Cincy, just where we were last year.
North of Kingsport, TN, again, right where we went last year. Last year we'd been to Kingsport for the CorgiAid Polar Bear Picnic just a few weeks before our flyby.
Mountains and more mountains, vanishing into the hazy distance.
An airplane is surely one of the best vantage points for Big Sky.
Getting close, now.
There's Charlotte.
Here's Charlotte. Charlotte of Mecklenburg was married to England's George III. Yep, *that* George III.
According to Wikipedia, young Charlotte was described as "plain faced." We saw portraits of her and George in the art museum on this trip, and we were struck by her different-size eyes and general "off" look. We wondered what she really looked like, as painters who did not flatter royal subjects had short careers....
Wikipedia says she was a talented amateur botanist (worked on the establishment of Kew Gardens), and a patron of the arts.
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