Views from an Airplane Window

I had a window seat on the flight between Tucson and Las Vegas on the way home from Baltimore last month. That is a scenic stretch from the air. Taking off from Tucson – one notices how flat the area of the city is…and how it is almost surrounded by mountains – some of them with snow at the top.

I saw one of the mines that we saw from the highway as we drove between Madera Canyon and Tucson earlier in our vacation. It is easier to see the pit and the slag from the air.

This looks like another mine – one that is literally taking the top off the mountain.

A little further on I noticed a different pattern in one of the circular irrigation fields. How could that happen. Did the waterline fail in some patterned way?

And then there were massive housing developments with red or white roofs – some around artificial lakes. They seem to build right up the base of the low mountains.

We flew over Lake Mead! I took a lot of pictures but the two below were the best.

As we turned toward Las Vegas there was more snow on the mountains. Sometimes the snow made a crest stand out…snow on one side and not as much on the other – a visual of the ‘rain shadow’ effect that applies to snow too.