The sirens went off last night

It rained really hard but the wind didn't seem strong enough to warrant the severe weather warning. Still, the most dangerous part of the first wave tracked just to the north of here so just after Uruguay 2, South Korea 1, I headed out thinking I might find a down tree or something photo worthy. I didn't really find any such thing although someone else did. Mostly I found a pretty nice late morning.

It wasn't a classically beautiful day at Lake Vadnais. There was still a bit of a hazy remnant of the storm but with the Guest Rider having recently become active again I thought it might be best to remind her of what awaits as soon as she is fit enough.Today I was strong, the two hour bicycle ride took just one minute more than two hours to complete.

Here's the last of this time through, the morning of our departure.

This isn't visible from the terminal, it also isn't visible from the road. It is only visible from the plane on the taxi out to take off, one of the last remaining SSTs on the planet, the Concorde.Here's one taken out the window while we were in flight. That's the shoreline of England down there.We passed over extreme western England, out near Land's End.

Later on the sky was quite clear when we passed over Greenland and I got a good look at that but didn't get a picture. Greenland is very, very interesting looking.