The flyover

New York front-line health care workers/all who are essential workers, were honored by the Flying Angels of the Air Force. They fly pretty quickly, and costly.

North Carolina's National Guard flew over Asheville, then Black Mountain, going along through mountain towns and in a big loop back to wherever they came from. Our local news publicized it the day ahead on Facebook, so I knew when they would be coming.

I had to go to the post office so while I was out, I walked around one side of Lake Tomahawk. Only one other person was also wearing a mask.  I had been on the dam, and was going to another place to look for the clear skies, when there it came...and fortunately I could see it through the branches of trees I stood under.

 Of course I could hear it, just as it approached over the far side of the lake. It had been scheduled to pass over Asheville at 10:50. It appeared here at 10:56.

Being a cargo plane, not a C-130 that I'd seen before, but a bigger, newer turbo-prop one...it made a lot of noise, and then was gone!

The news outlet said it was standard training so didn't cost anything extra. But I was glad to hear (when I posted my photo on Facebook) that lots of other people saw it too.

Today's quote:

Take refuge in this moment.
One lightning bolt of wonder

through the heart of a child
incinerates ten thousand
books of philosophy.
All the speeches of politicians
burn to tasteless ash
in the diamond eye of a lover.
A wild mushroom springs
from the manure pile, pungent
as the breath of a dark angel.
There is no war in this meadow.
Stars yearn to fall here
and become wild poppies
on an April morning. 

Fred LaMotte