The view from here

When I was a kid I used to love flying.  If I got a window seat it was an extra special treat because I could see everything from 35,000 feet.  It always amazed me to see things from that far away.  With all the business travel I do now I usually get the aisle seat because it is easier to get up and down and stretch my legs.  I do miss looking out the window though.

I purposely booked my trip from Seattle to Salt Lake with a window seat because I knew might get a view of Rainer.  I have seen it poke above the clouds before but have not had my camera.  Other times I have had my camera and The Mountain was socked in.  On Wednesday the elements combined for a great photographic opportunity.  The pictures are a bit distorted because the window didn’t roll down on my plane and I had to shoot through the glass.  The rest of the trip brought the kid in me out again as I got to watch the wonderful western countryside pass below me.

I like this one because you can see Mount Hood way out in the distance.  We cut in between the mountains and headed for Utah so I didn’t get a good view of Hood.  Mount Saint Helens is in this picture as well but I’m not sure exactly where.

 

 

 

 

Here is dear old Idaho.  I kind of wondered if this is where we run the spud.  The bridge and the Island look right but I can’t see the golf course.  Maybe I was just trying make the reality below me fit what my minds eye saw?

 

 

 

 

I have always been amazed at this rock formation near Willard Bay.  I’m amazed at the way that rock twist and rise and ponder the forces necessary to push the Wasatch Mountains up to their current heights.

 

 

 

After out plane flew south and made a 180 I got ready we made our final approach into SLC and I was treated this view of the great salt lake at sunset.  Being a sunset junkie I wonder how come I have never gone to the lake to take pictures at sunset.  Someday I suppose!