… but still I’ve been sitting outside gazing at the patch of sky I’ve got above my house, looking for vintage planes. I figure maybe some of them on their way to or from the National Mall for today’s flyover (it starts in ten minutes) will putter through the ‘thesdan blue. (Watch it here.)
So far all I see are the usual silent thin contrails streaming out of jets taking off from one of DC’s three airports. Loud birds and squirrels take up most of the aural landscape. In particular, a wren couple built its nest in one of our rather deep containers just at the front of the house, so there’s pretty much continual hysteria as they attempt to feed the hatchlings amid many interruptions.
Tomorrow La Kid takes UD to her beloved Rehoboth Beach for a Mother’s Day weekend. UD grew up in a house where the words bogus and kitsch and commercial were attached to Mother’s Day. But La Kid is pious about it, and UD‘s not complaining.
I’ll blog from the beach.
May 9th, 2015 at 9:10PM
The flyover was pretty spectacular, viewed from the area around the Washington Monument. I didn’t think that there were any flyable B-29s in existence, but there it was, the only airworthy one left, roaring overhead. C-SPAN has complete coverage for anyone with 45 minutes to watch it: http://www.c-span.org/video/?325808-1/world-war-ii-victory-europe-70th-anniversary-flyover
May 9th, 2015 at 11:09PM
Thanks for the link, Polish Peter.