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Looking at the Sky, Tish's excellent meme, returns and I turn to daughter Allegra for this week's post. She went to a church function in Grand Rapids Michigan two weeks ago and the resident plane spotter (me...of course!) requested sky pics while aloft. And she did so with style. We parents tracked the flights for reassurance, but Continental Express delivered her fine style. Here she is from Hartford to Cleveland. This is the smooth skies after a bout of turbulence as they avoided stormy skies.
In the second, she is en route home between Cleveland to Hartford. What I like to see upstairs is the dark blue sky that is at the entrance to space and the fine cloud formations that the pilots avoid to give the paying passengers the smooth ride they like. Is this an Alp - or a billowy cloud? Sharp viewers might see the artist at work in the reflection...
Finally,a few minutes later, the view near the heavens has to end after a fun five days. The blue was gone as her Embrarer 145 jet crosses the threshold of Runway 24 at Bradley Field. Storms were all about Connecticut, so gray skies covered the land. However, the rainy clouds have their own beauty, although we are really tired after one of the rainiest Junes in these parts in many years. We are happy of her return, and Allegra loves being up there as much as her dad... 
Ruby Tuesday brings the red out of nearly anything. Food around here gives us a more organic ruby feast, not just for the eyes, but the palette as well. A smattering of color here in many guises. There is carrot soup, say, easy to make and it is almost a Crayola orange-red.
Mexican lasagna, well, is probably not authentic. But it offers red for an appropriate Tuesday hue
Chili nachos were a New Year's Eve treat, and the chili has a tomato soup base and with red Kidney Beans, you know the coloration is perfect.
Not to be outdone, the kids had often experimented with melted chocolate chips and...oyster crackers. They used croutons once, and oddly enough, that combination wasn't bad. The red is represented by the store brand on the bag
Finally, I show last year's hot peppers. These chilies are what we hope for from the harvest of our garden this year. Yep, edible reds are a fine apertif - Bon Appétit and happy RT!
Bayside beckons! Sepia Scenes is the monochrome meme for me where the past may predominate. It is Michele, me and Claudia in the back of the brick apartment at 204-07 35th Avenue, say about late 1957. The past seems to work well with the Kodak B&W print (Tri-X film?) with the always subtle sepia tones added. Everybody is wearing hats, mine slightly askew. As always, a fun blast from the past...
Ruby Tuesday gives us a certain flexibility in the amount of red to be presented. A lot, or a little, any red is just right! So here at Craigville Beach in Barnstable, rubies are the more the exception than the norm....you can look a little harder. I am seated in the beach wheelchair with the brilliantly ruby beach towel to keep the sun from frying my knees. Okay, this is the obvious one. However, note the other two reds in play: my face with the sun induced reds, and for the always lovely Patti seated to my left, her hair...not red by design, but the natural light brings out the subtle red highlights in her hair. A lot or a little...See the other fine red captures at Mary's meme!
I know the kids are big these days, but you do have a heightened sense about them. college or no. Yesterday, Cameron went to Six Flags in NJ, with a number of his college friends and Allegra was on her way from Hartford (BDL) to a church conference in Michigan. Flying is a truly safe mode of transit, but you do consider things differently as a parent. Allegra and I found an interesting flight tracker from Flightaware that tracks things. Continental Express (#BTA 2345) that skirted stormy clouds by taking the big arc over upstate NY to sunnier skies along lake Erie.
I followed the second flight (BTA 2341) on Google Earth, and snapped this one at 1600 Ft. prior to landing. Cameron called when he arrived in NJ and Allegra called from Cleveland and Grand Rapids (GRR). Reassured we parental unit
s are....
I suppose that parents never stop caring about the kids....
Looking at the Sky, hosted by Tisha, allows our creative juices to flow. Or not. We can follow complex storm scenes, brilliant sunrises/sunsets or whatever. Of course, the simple sky blue and painted white fair-weather streaks, simple as they are, work fine, too. We are entering the Keystone state on US 202 from Delaware in 2000. Nothing splashy upstairs today, but we were going on vacation that day - even a rainy sky couldn't detract from that!
PS: Patti used the other' Welcome to PA' sign in an earlier LATSOF...
For Sepia Scenes, I am trying to use sepia to create a different illusion. Like I did recently, I am using the horizon to alter the other parts of this photo on the Nantucket Sound side of Kalmus Beach in Hyannis. That is, with the sepia skies appearing as clouds, the water and sand reflective of a sunny day. On a cloudy day, the salty surf would be that dark, unattractive green-gray hue. The beach sand wouldn't copy the bright sun, and look more gray than tan. The sky was bright actually, but I wouldn't mind if the colors below the horizon appeared as bright as possible when the skies appeared like this monochrome murk. Gotta get back to the Cape one of these years...
In the second, she is en route home between Cleveland to Hartford. What I like to see upstairs is the dark blue sky that is at the entrance to space and the fine cloud formations that the pilots avoid to give the paying passengers the smooth ride they like. Is this an Alp - or a billowy cloud? Sharp viewers might see the artist at work in the reflection...
Finally,a few minutes later, the view near the heavens has to end after a fun five days. The blue was gone as her Embrarer 145 jet crosses the threshold of Runway 24 at Bradley Field. Storms were all about Connecticut, so gray skies covered the land. However, the rainy clouds have their own beauty, although we are really tired after one of the rainiest Junes in these parts in many years. We are happy of her return, and Allegra loves being up there as much as her dad...
