Nine Nine Ten

Yesterday my car stayed parked in the dirt part of the driveway. It did not move. But we still managed to burn gallons of fossil fuel.



There was a sunset scenic flight, a smooth, glassy water landing, and the dusk of afterglow.



This weekend is the Greenville, Maine International Seaplane Fly-In. Contestants tie canoes to their plane floats, taxi to an island, take off the canoe while one paddles the canoe and one taxies the plane back to the shore, then reties the canoe, all as fast as they can. Others see how short a distance they can take off or land. Crowds eat greasy food, drink beer along the banks of the water at Moosehead Lake, and listen to the roar of 185s, Beavers and one Sikorsky float plane painted as a leopard.

A few years back we saw the Northern Lights while camping with friends at the Greenville airport next to our land airplane. I could put a video in here, but couldn't find one without an ad. National Geographic has a nice one showing aurora borealis in Norway.