Day 7.279: Flying home

On Monday, I flew to Chicago with a colleague where we missed our connection, found out our rescheduled flight was cancelled and ended up driving for nearly four hours to reach our destination instead.

Today, it was time to come home. Fortunately, we made our connection and, as the plane climbed out of the band of clouds that producing a rather grey day at ground level, I saw this:

and then I enjoyed these (the book is Stone Mattress - a book of nine short stories):

and then I arrived home.