Reflection in remembering earlier years comparing dramatic change, always whispered in hushed tones by older generation, mirage life's many layers, slow to reveal...
Watching highly maneuverable helicopter skipping between private homes trying to flush out robbers with ground patrols obviously close at hand to warrant an arrest.
Whoever was committing the crime, hopefully caught and do the time! How very much times have changed right before my eyes.
Reflecting back to the late 1980s when our Airforce still existed at old Durban International Airport as their home base. Returning from training manoeuvres in the Drakensberg which is well known to have excellent conditions for pilots to learn tackling variety of air flow conditions. They passed directly over our home where the children would spill out into the garden to watch them, waving greetings from below. How very much we miss those years!
Apart from official military support the squadron is involved in mountain rescue and air-sea rescue operations, fire fighting, crime prevention and humanitarian relief in the event of disasters. SAA-History
Back in the garden enjoying nature, far more robust in maneuverability are dragonflies, enchant then amaze me with variety in size or wing display.
A Woolly-necked stork decided to do a fly through exercising it's rights of the skies above, more 'fixed wing' like those who practice flight over our valley regularly.
Small light planes often practice through the valley high or low flying has been allowed here for as long as I can remember.
A few small planes during the day I wonder if it is cooler up there, down here on the ground it is baking hot, do they see the heat haze reflecting above. How would you feel, would that too echo a longing passion, fly free above the haze?
Valley fills with heat shimmer as do the roads, where cycle of hot then cooler air creates many layers as does human interaction with one another. Leading my thought to division being created by unseen forces slowly being revealed!
Back let's touch base with Woolly-neck launching off hot roof, long enough investigation into the reflections on life, take to the sky.
Mirage heat across valley midday sun on hot sultry days we have been experiencing, currently overcast with promise of rain after lawns are burned it revives me with hope of another day reflecting on what we endure through experiencing different lifestyles, let life not simply be a mirage.
All photography is my own using a Canon PowerShot SC730 HS, resized for easier loading, writing is my own. Thanks for taking time to read, let me know your comments on how you feel about living in a mirage.
Thought for Today: "The radiate sun reflections and lightening cannot make a blind person see." - African Proverbs
