What makes you happy ?

One memory of the flight. The plane descended from the skies toward Los Angeles airport. From the bright white above all the clouds, through the slightly turbulent and slightly grey clouds and into mud. The skies were clear in a brown sort of way. I could see out over to right wing and there was thick dirty brown cloud hanging over the city. It looked horrendous. I’ve seen thick fog, I’ve seen smog over a city before but this was off that scale. Amazing.

Anyway……. I have many many photos that need rotating and some more of Casa Buena to complete the week so at some point I’ll get round to that.

There’s a field where I take Winston for a walk. Part of that field is down a track and it has a sunken area in the middle. Standing in that cuts most of the light out so the sky and starts can be seen really clearly. I like Orion. I’ve always liked that constellation I suppose because it is so easy to identify. The MIB reference just adds to the coolness too. Anyway, as I type this it’s just after 7pm and I could be back home at 7pm one evening and out with the beast, standing in that field looking at Orion. And here I am in Mexico where I just stood outside in the dark looking at Orion.
I know the explanations. I know how it all works but that sort of thing seems so odd, makes the wonder of the world and space all so real. It’s like looking at the sun setting, or the moon and knowing that someone half the world away can see the same thing at the same time. It makes the world so huge yet maybe so small too.

I really should have been playing and practising on the Wii from when we got it but I never got round to it. Which was a shame. Then I would not have lost the La Paz Tennis Tournament so really badly. I played twice – once with Toni and once with Matt T. I lost both. In fact I didn’t win a game. The winner in the end was Matt M – and no smashed wiimotes either :)