Welcome to the New Year!

I hope the remaining 345 days in 2014 will be happy, healthy, safe and jolly. 

So far my New Year has be terrific. Not for any big, particular reason other than my           husband and I went to our place on the East Coast of South Florida for a week. 

For me Florida is a magical place. It is another planet - worlds away from the hustle bustle of New York City - but  definitely an energy all its own energy.

We woke each morning before sunrise and went down to the seawall with a freshly brewed cup of coffee and sat where the beach meets the ocean.   


The anticipation of the sun peeking up over the horizon starts minutes before it actually makes its debut but the sky begins to give pastel glues long before the suns arrival. 

The dark sky begins to lighten and the stars fade away opening up the horizon to an incredibly pale blue - almost white - sky. The stratus clouds turn light pink and then transition into orange. 
The mini-size cumluous clouds have deep gray bottoms and shimmering white tops - sometimes lined with a few golden sunbeams highlighting their shapes. 
You understand that the day is not quite ready to begin - not yet. The air is still regardless if the sea is silky smooth or angry. It's peaceful all the same - just waiting, anticipating something wonderful.
When daytime finally arrives the sky turns its predictable shades of blue, the clouds a variety of white and gray and the ocean turns from charcoal to a number of different hues of green and blue. 

Good Morning to the New Day!

Personal moments with nature like these describes my life as a pilot. I often said the part of flying I will miss the most are the skyscapes - and I do. They can be unpredictable at times but skyscapes are always fascinatingly beautiful. Looking out from 33,000 feet the sunrises, sunsets and moonrises are like skyscapes on steroids - a kaleidoscope of colors wrapped 270 degrees around the plane.

While I was still flying I often wished I could have asked each and every passenger to come up to the cockpit and see what what I was experiencing - 

 The view of a lifetime!