August 25

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My last day in Kansas, for this trip.  One last pre-dawn walk with my sister-in-law.

One last look at my bro and sil's "big yaller dog."  (The small gray dog is very hard to get a pic of -- she doesn't like to have her picture taken, and she's not as often still as the big dog....  The minute I move -- to reach for the camera, say -- she's also on the move....)

(He has perfectly good front legs; he just likes to lie on top of them.)



He has one of the most expressive faces I've ever seen.  There's never a doubt how he's feeling.  He only looks neutral at neutral times.  (This was before I brought the suitcase down, making it clear that Changes Were Afoot.)

Some time later.  At the airport.  There are many things to like about MCI.  Including the mosaics in the floor.  My mom made a really excellent silk screen of this Kansas City icon when she was in art school.

The terminal buildings at MCI are nearly circular.  I had time to walk before my flight, so I walked from my entry point into the building, to one end, back around to the other end, and back to my gate.  Here's one of the other buildings, spotted through a window from my building.  And the weird colors in the sky are all (NOT) thanks to Blogger............

On the plane.  Getting ready to go.  Note front windows in the plane in the next image.

I suppose that if anyone's windows open, on an airplane, it should be the pilots' windows....

I guess I'm not the only one who likes to have cleaner windows than Delta automatically provides.  I always clean the inside of my window (and would clean the outside of it, too, if I had access!).

Here we go...........

I love flying..................

There's MCI.  You can see the three nearly-circular buildings, left, center.  Sort of in the corner of the airport....

Clouds and more clouds.  Wispy ones.

So interesting how there can be different sorts of clouds very close to each other.  Wispy ones above, thicker ones just below, and then puffy little ones, down lower.....

This is interesting..........

And what have we here?  We'd been told we needed to alter our flight plan to avoid a storm.  I'm glad not to have gotten closer to this (and I don't know that this was the one we were avoiding).  We are at cruising altitude, and you can tell this storm was taller than our altitude, because it is above the horizon from our vantage point...........

Isn't this interesting?  That flat disk? of cloud above, over what looks like it could well be a storm....

Here's a closer look at the big storm? cloud, with thin gray clouds between it and us.

This is the best shot I got that showed the whole picture -- big flat disk, with storm? and stuff underneath.  I wish I'd pulled back farther so the camera reflection wouldn't be so obvious.  Ah well.  (Why do they make any part of cameras reflective?  Poor planning, I say.....)

No matter how many times I look at clouds, I still see things I've never seen before......



Almost home -- this is Willow Run, which was the Detroit area's airport before Metro was built.  (Wish I'd moved my paperback novel, so its yellow reflection wasn't in the pic!)

Another good trip to visit family.  I need to try to plan these trips so they're not at times when the temps in Kansas are 95 and over!

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