Photo of the Day: Fly Me to the Moon

It's a very narrow flight path to the full setting moon.

~7:20a.m.

~photo by iPhone

Photo of the Day: Time Flies

Over Vegas, heading back to NYC

Very late Vegas Time / Very early New York Time

Vacation passes too quickly.

Also, this year flew by.

Which is good, because this year has been ...

~photo by iPhone 

43 Ideas for Birthday 43: Up, Up and Away

For the last three days this song, as sung by the Fifth Dimension, has been just stuck in my head and I can't get it out:

"Up, Up And Away"
lyrics by Dionne Warwick

Wouldn't you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?
Wouldn't you like to glide in my beautiful balloon?
We could float among the stars together, you and I
For we can fly

Up, up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon

The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon
It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon
We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky
For we can fly

Up, up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon

Suspended under a twilight canopy
We'll search the clouds for a star to guide us on
If by some chance you find yourself loving me
We'll find a cloud to hide us, keep the moon beside us

Love is waiting there in my beautiful balloon
Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon
If you'll hold my hand we'll chase your dreams across the sky
For we can fly

Up, up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon
Up and away, up, up and away, up, up and away 

Seen here: http://youtu.be/5akEgsZSfhg

• New York's Adirondack Balloon Festival September 17-20, 2015 (might have to work)
• New Jersey's Festival of Ballooning July 24-26, 2015 (have to work) 
• Skywalker Balloon Company of Utah

I think I just want to observe the balloons to start with, and maybe work up to just a vertical tethered flight, and then maybe ... one day ... a long flight over the rolling open hills of Southern Utah. 

Attic, Sweet Attic

Home, sweet home.

More soon.

Just grateful to be in the Attic, mail sorted, breakfast "'et," and now about to shower and nap.

Feeling grimy after a red-eye.
Feeling lucky to be home.

About 90 minutes after I landed, JFK closed again due to icing - and oh, jets sliding off the runways.

SO GRATEFUL to be home.

Retroblogging: Chicago Trip 2012, Art Institute

Art Institute of Chicago, January 2012

Isamu Noguchi
American, 1904-1988

Miss Expanding Universe, 1932

Aluminum
113.9 x 88.6 x 15.2 cm (40 7/8 x 34 7/8 x 9 in.)
Bequest of Ruth Page, 1994.833

© 2012 The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / 

Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

 This is fabulous piece that merits more contemplation, but apparently isn't on display anymore. Check back here for more details and her status.