Look at the sky!

I often encounter this reminder. Look at the sky! In my city, I see this message where graffiti artists can express themselves... and they express themselves everywhere!

It annoys me when I see this written on the walls, but I admit that every time I look at the sky I realize that I often forget to do this.

In Romanian "priveste cerul" means "look at the sky"!

This past Saturday I have been watching the sky, at home, in my little backyard. I spent many hours staring at the sky. It was not because I saw this indemnity written on a fence.

The cause was something else, a deafening noise made me leave the cafe and the kitchen and run into the yard. I knew that sound, I'd heard it several times, the engine of a multirole F 16.

The problem was that my traveling speed was no more than 15-20 km/hour and the airplane flew 1500-2000 km/hour! When I heard the noise, the airplane was far away, it was not visible, especially since the curtain of trees surrounding my house left very little room for observation.

I remembered that a big air show was scheduled that Saturday at an airport close to my house. I knew that the schedule that day would be changed and would try to catch some of the airplanes participating in that show.

The wait was not too long and we heard the roar of the engines again... helicopters!

Fortunately, these helicopters don't have much speed and I was able to capture... the image.

I thought the airplanes would pass quickly one after the other but I forgot that this show would take up the whole day. There followed a long break during which boredom was killed by the few flowers that resisted this extremely hot summer.

When I didn't have airplanes I had flowers!

After an hour the sky was filled again with noise and massive, frightening airplanes. I say that because they are fighter planes, warplanes.

Troop and material transport planes, the famous Hercules.

Impressive is that these airplanes were built in the 50s, so they are more than 80 years old, I mean the model, and they are still used today by NATO.

I've already found out what's going on, that another break is coming, which I'm still using for my flowers.

If earlier Hercules were smaller models with only two engines, a monstrously large one with six engines has passed by, which I almost missed. I only caught a distant glimpse...

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My yard is small but there are many plants, more than airplanes!
Beauty is not only in flowers...

There were some other airplanes in formation, which were so small that they reminded me of mosquitoes, of course, compared to the big Hercules!

I'm used to having one eye on the sky and the other on the ground, looking for flowers.

For a while, I got bored of waiting for the airplanes that were passing towards the place where the show was taking place with long pauses in between. Only the infernal and unmistakable noise of the fighter planes forced me to search the skies, most of the time in vain. Eventually, I got lucky and caught in the distance an F-16, or F 18, or F 22, I don't know what it was.