Got a chance to fly my first plane – not a real plane but – in a flight simulator. Jay – the great instructor – made us go over New York – by the Statue of Liberty and even Natasha’s dorm. The simulation pictures are unbelievably realistic but I had no time to check out Tasha’s dorm – I was so worried about the plane going down 🙂

Staying up in the air was no problem. Landing was a whole different issue. Jay picked Teterboro runway. Let me put it this way – if you ignore all the warning sirens inside the cockpit that I had triggered with my landing skills, I was still glad that I was in a simulator. I did manage to get it to land on the runway with some help from the instructor.

Beautiful Lake Michigan

Struggled to capture the splash after a rain drop fell on the white banister in the patio. After quite some time, this is the best I could get. You can see on the right side what a rain drop looks like a nanosecond after hitting the surface. The one on the right obviously had hit just before the one on the left…

Two leaves literally next to each other hanging off from the same twig. One is totally oblivious of the onset of fall. The other could not be any brighter with the brilliant fall colors. How come they pick up different signals?

Two twigs next to each other with almost identical set of leaves. Except one is totally green while the other has marched forward with the signals of fall…