Beneath sun and ice - an airplane flew overhead

OK. It's Wednesday. Just barely. I have felt pretty bad, not putting up a new post for this much time, but given what I am struggling to finish up (and greatly enjoying the struggle, I might add, even though sometimes I get so stressed I forget I'm enjoying it), I truly have not had time to fool with this blog. Still, I've got to keep it on life support until I can give it some attention again, so I am back to the Wednesday post schedule.

I have been debating what to put up. Off and on for a few weeks now, I've been shooting a series of studies of Kalib drinking lemonade and eating chips at Taco Bell and I thought I might put that up. I've got some back-logged Jobe and Lynxton studies and some of them ought to one day be classics. Last Saturday, Margie pulled me away from my desk and said "let's go have lunch at Subway and then drive up to Hatcher Pass." So we did, and it was wonderful and I got some pretty good pictures, including one of Margie I really like, which doesn't happen that often because she hates to be photographed, but, due to being a little absent minded the night before and thus making a mistake a photographer should never make, I missed a once-in-a-life-time photo opportunity of some Laotians dressed in brightly colored traditional clothing, shaded beneath bright umbrellas, as they wandered about the old buildings of the Independence Gold Mine in Hatcher Pass. It is a story worth telling as a warning to other photographers not to make the same mistake.

There were many other picture possiblities for me to post, too, including the Mahoney wedding - but all the things described above would take some time. Especially the Mahoney wedding.

I decided to just post this picture of this airplane which flew over me a couple of days ago while I was walking. This will take a minimal amount of time. 

I did not even know there was an ice halo ringing the sun. The sun was too bright to look at. But whenever I hear a plane coming my way, I look for it, spot it, raise my camera, focus on it and follow it until it flies away. And this one flew directly beneath the ice halo.