Flying by Merrillee Whren

When I fly on an airplane, I like a window seat so I can look out. Viewing the earth from 35,000 feet is often spectacular. When I look down, I try to figure out where I am. I often take photos while I'm flying. I'm going to share a few of my flying photos today.

Here's one of my favorites. It's a photo of Mt. Hood in Oregon sticking out above the clouds as my flight left Portland on my way to Spokane for one of my first book signings.

Here's an interesting photo I took on my way to an RWA Conference in NYC a couple of years ago. It's the shoreline of one of the Great Lakes looking into Canada. 

I love to look at the clouds while I fly. These are some amazing clouds formations.

More clouds and one of the engines that was keeping us up in the air.

Here's the coastline of Europe as we flew from Spain to England.

If you look in the left hand side of the photo below, you can see the White Cliffs of Dover on the coast of England. I barely got my camera ready before we flew past them.

I not only like to fly to visit places, but I like to fly when I write. I fly by the seat of my pants. I know something about my characters and the situation that starts the story, but the rest is as much an adventure as looking out the window on a flight from the beginning to the end.

Do you like to fly?

I'm giving away a copy of the first book in my Front Porch Promises series to one person who leaves a comment. I'll draw the winning name on Father's Day, June 18, 2017 at 9PM MST. 

Merrillee Whren is the winner of the 2003 Golden Heart Award presented by Romance Writers of American. She is married to her own personal hero, her husband of forty-plus years, and has two grown daughters. Connect with her on her Facebook page and sign up for her newsletter.

 

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A Walk in the English Countryside

My husband and I love to take long country walks at the weekend, and today was no exception. We decided to walk a circuit through the fields and woodland near our house.

We were lucky to have a beautiful day with blue skies and sunny weather, even if the wind was rather cold. A bonus was that my son was at home this weekend so he came with us.

I thought it would be a lovely idea to take photos of the walk and post them to the blog. My idea didn't start well when I realized I'd forgotten my phone! Luckily my son had his so I used that. Unfortunately his phone ran out of power just as we approached the lovely historic manor house hotel I wanted to photograph!

Once we arrived home, I had fun transferring the photos across—a simple matter you might think. I managed eventually by texting the photos from my son's phone to my own. I'm very impressed with my lovely new Macbook that shows me the photos on my iPhone, cutting out the step where I would have had to upload the photos from my phone to my computer.

Anyway, this is our walk through the Devon countryside (or the first part of it before the phone ran out of battery) in photos.

My husband, son (Peter who made the Sweet Christmas Kisses book cover) and Izzy.

Our house is in the valley to the right of this picture hidden behind some trees.

Me and Peter wrapped up against the cold.