Aerial Love

Every time I'm on a plane, I love to watch out the window and the view is always awesome, be it a night-time view of shimmering city lights or mounds of misty clouds.

Aerial view of an Indian city

My favourite is the coastline!
I love the way the tide keeps moving to and fro, and the frothy waves form a white oscillating border, like the edge of a blanket on a clothes-line swaying to a steady wind. Standing on the beach, the waves appear huge and as though coming from a long distance, but from a plane you can see how they form only a fringe of the ocean. And the vastness of the ocean is so overwhelming.

Next up is the view of city lights at night time.
With all the branching and intercrossing roads, the steamy streetlights, the tiny cars moving like in a video-game, still tinier windows, the occasional river/water body with its banks studded with lights as it passes through the city.

They remind me of an electric circuit like in the mother-board of a computer, as if the entire city is actually a part of one big supercomputer.

Or like it's a mirror of a starry sky (which is becoming a rare sight thanks to all the pollution) with lots of comets flashing across.

Then again I imagine sometimes that I'm an alien about to land on earth, looking down from my spaceship, trying to make sense of the maze below.  o_O

And the clouds!
Don't you feel like it would be heaven if you could just reach out and touch that fluffy white expanse or fall into its softness (not really fall! ) or flick the edge of the cloudy candy floss and eat it? ;)

Can never get enough of them!

Flying over mountains, wastelands, forests and fields isn't any less fun:

But as you can't usually see clearly what you are flying above for most of the flight, I keep praying for the pilot to fly low so that I can get more pretty sights to freeze in my memory. (Okay, I confess I've taken a few shots with my phone. But it was always on offline mode and without the air-hostess finding out that I was using my phone!)

I've taken to this 'hobby' somewhat recently, instead of snuggling up with a nice book as usual. And I find it really refreshing and fascinating. (Maybe it's because of my huge wish to try sky-diving one day.)

This is the only one of the lot that I clicked! :D

Does anyone else like aerial views from planes?