Above the clouds!

WE are home !  Arrived safely, but with over an hour in Washington sitting in the plane waiting for whatever was wrong to be put right!!  

This was taken this morning on the plane.  I love watching the clouds, here like lots of sheep and quite dazzling!  It always makes me think of Saint Exupéry's book Vol de nuit .  A description of the pilot's flight. How he manages to climb in his tiny plane, above the storm  and is dazzled by the light of the moon on the clouds as he emerges.  He only has half an hour's fuel!  These were the first pilots to carry postal services first across the Sahara and later in South America.  Their courage was incredible!

“In a flash, the very instant he had risen clear, the pilot found a peace that passed his understanding. Not a ripple tilted the plane but, like a ship that has crossed the bar, it moved across a tranquil anchorage. In an unknown and secret corner of the sky it floated, as in a harbor of the Happy Isles. Below him still the storm was fashioning another world, ridded with squalls and cloudbursts and lightnings, but turning to the stars a face of crystal snow.” 
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight