I wound up with a window seat on our pre-Christmas flight from Sacramento to DFW, so I shot a few photos with my phone camera. They’re not the best quality, of course, but there’s always something fascinating about seeing the landscape from an airliner perspective. That viewpoint also highlighted the contrast between the rainy, overcast weather in California and the blue skies of Northern Texas. And finally, in examining my photos after arrival, I realized our inbound flightpath took us directly over my in-laws’ house and the hotel where we would be staying over the next few days.

The early morning rainstorm paused long enough for us to take off under cloudy skies

Over Nevada

Nearing DFW

Texas Motor Speedway

Over Roanoke