Cookies? Pretzels? Over-saturated landscape?
A little south-east and a bit above where I grew up (as the commercial airliner flies).
Dr. Rumack: “Can you fly this plane, and land it?”
Ted Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious?”
Dr. Rumack: “I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.”
– Leslie Nielsen & Robert Hays – Airplane!
About this image: digital photograph (Canon 600D) lightly modified in Adobe Photoshop
Refrigerator Magnate 
Patchwork! Welcome back, Robert. 🙂
Thank you, S.E! It’s nice to be back… I feel a bit behind now, though!
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Pretty! How did you ever find such a clean airplane window?
Thanks so much Laura! Hahaha… you should see my sleeves now! Seriously, though… it was pretty bad. I had my lens right up on the window and I still had to do a lot of digital window washing.
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Welcome back, Robert!! Good to see you again. Such a lovely, colorful quilt and the snake is a bonus. Have you been flying a lot? I hope everything is going well with you.
Thanks so very much, Amy! It’s good to be back! I just hope I manage to get caught up on everything.
I flew up to (and back from ND for the wedding). I know there are a lot of people who fly all the time… but for me that does kind of seem like a lot.
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Super nice! Patchwork perfection! xxx
Thank you, thank you sir! I appreciate that very much!
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Great patchwork. MM 🍀
Many thanks to you, MM!
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Your over-saturated landscape is better than cookies and pretzels or cookie pretzels. . .or pretzel cookies. Whatever. It’s fab.
Excellent! I’m so happy to hear that, H.C… it is a new recipe, so I wasn’t quite sure…
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so the Maestro has returned 🙂
Welcome back SIG and what a
fine example to kick-start the
week 🙂 It is a colourful recipe
with lashings of class 🙂
It’s great to see you here my great friend…
Andro
Many thanks, my friend!
I think I’m back…
it’s a bit difficult to tell from under the tower of processing!
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Fabulous image and absolutely perfect quote! Love that movie! We watched it recently with our boys and now they “don’t call me Shirley” is a favorite! Enjoy the day! Robyn
Many thanks, Robyn! Hahaha… yeah, as soon as I started thinking ‘airplane’…
definitely the first thing that came to mind!
And thank you again! I hope you have a good one, too!
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“Lightly modified”? Surely you must be kidding?
Hahaha… perhaps I should have said, ‘moderately’. Because the way I abuse Photoshop some wild composite would be the sort of thing I’d consider heavily modified. I’ll admit… it’s a bit of a problem.
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You were supposed to say: “That’s not important now, and don’t call me Shirley”.
Hahaha… I’ll keep that in mind (once I figure out how to land this thing)!
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Welcome back. It’s a nice image
Thank you very much, sir! It is nice to be back! I’m happy you liked this!
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Lovely image – you have a vivid way of seeing things. And such a classic comedy line! Cheers.
Thank you so very much! Not ‘quite’ natural in color… but… you know… that’s how I roll, er… fly!
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WOW all that growing round that tiny river. Kind of sad.
I know I shouldn’t have been, but I was still a bit surprised by how much smaller it looks from the air, too. And the river I grew up next to is even smaller than this (it eventually flows into the one in this photograph).
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I wonder how much bigger it would be if everyone wasn’t irrigating fields…
Hmmm… that sounds like a serious question! Hahaha… I just wish I wasn’t so seriously out of answers! Kind of makes you wonder, though, huh?!
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I tend to over think things it’s ok!
To tell you the truth I’m a bit relieved to know I’m not the only one who does that!
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Oh good! LOL
Welcome back!
Many thanks, sir!
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Nice to see you back. Glad you brought along the warm patchwork quilt. It is quite lovely. Maybe you should have made the Red River…red. 😉
It’s great to be back! I just wish I didn’t always manage to get myself so far behind!
Oooo… now THAT would have been an idea! And, since it the Red flows into Lake Winnipeg, it would have been very fitting (red always makes me think Canada). 🙂
Yeah, I think we do have an association with red. Red and white, that’s us, just like Switzerland.
Red, white and always polite!
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Perfect work and luckily landscape.
Thank you so very much!
I’m always surprised by how different everything looks from so high up!
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Love neatness of all the squares contrasted with the curves of the river.
Welcome back!
It’s a good thing I’m not a farmer, Ms. C… I’m pretty sure my fields would look a lot more like that river!
And thank you! It’s good to be back!
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“lightly modified?” Things are pretty colorful where you live, SIG. Is it Oz?
Hahaha… well, that’s admittedly a pretty subjective ‘lightly’.
You can about imagine the kind of Photoshop abuse I do that would warrant a ‘heavily modified’ description. I mean, we’re talking full-on, conspiracy theory kind of stuff. Sasquatch, anyone?!
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Wow! I post some stripes on one measly field and you photography and post a collection of them! Isn’t water amazing? Look how that river flows!!
Your fields are every bit as wowing, LB! Every bit!
Absolutely! Nature does some fascinating things, doesn’t it?!
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Great to have you back! 🙂 Nice shot! I love grids! very colorful!
Thanks, Mary! It’s good to be back! It might be even ‘gooder’ to get caught up, though!
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i love all the various shades of red in your valley! 🙂
there were so many funny moments in that movie. i still remember the taxi driver who was waiting and waiting with the meter running
by the way, welcome back!!
Many thanks, P&K!
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Thanks, P&K! Things were just starting to get autumnal when I took this… of course I gave the colors a little digital boost. Oh, okay… a BIG one! 🙂
Mother Nature called and said to stop messing around with her color scape! 😛
Hahaha… oh boy! If I pretend like I’m not home she’s just going to keep calling me back, isn’t she?! I guess I’d better just apologize now and get it over with!
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Amazing! Having just flown last week myself, I found myself looking at the patchwork below and thinking about how airplane pictures never turn out like you want them to. And then you made this one turn out better than I could have ever imagined. Really, really excellent.
Aw, thanks, U.M! Yeah… I was a little disappointed in how this looked out of the camera, too. Thus the
major editing abuseminor adjustments. 🙂That photograph is so awesome! All I want to do is just pull that river straight! LOL
Hahaha… wild, isn’t it! I wonder if it would bounce back? Kind of like a watery ‘spring’?!
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This is where wine gums grow
*burp*
Grew.
My bad.
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And you didn’t tell me?? Now I’ll have to wait for the next crop.
Sorry, Binky! That wasn’t very sporting of me, was it?!
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The Anaconda is on the loose again. Good to have you back Robert,
Hahaha… I’m just glad it wasn’t ON the plane… or… wait…
Thank you very much, my friend!
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Excellent! a wonderful patch work quilt quality.
Thanks, Astra! It’s kind of fun to watch… almost a bit hypnotic… kind of like a fish tank.
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We Americans are so square. I never lost my sense of direction until I moved to Europe. Their cities are so curvy and loopty loo.
Sounded fascinating even before you threw in the ‘loopty’ part!
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Excellent composition. 🙂
Love the winding stitch – work in your quilt. It elevates the visual composition to another plane. 😀
Ha! Many thanks, sir! I’m happy to hear this one got off the ground (I always kind of worry about that sort of thing, you know)!
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A very neat image! Maybe we could play The Farmer’s Game on that board.
Thanks, Binky! Something tells me you would win! I hear Wombies are tough to beat!
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A fabulous patchwork of a landscape! The Red River just isn’t sure where to go, is it?
Why, thank you, Karen! Indeed! It looks like a lot of watery work, doesn’t it?! I get kind of tired just thinking about it!
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I can only imagine what your back to school essays about what you did on holiday / vacation were like! Thanks for the stupendous view SiG!
Hahaha… they usually were something along the lines of, “I… um… well… I took a few photographs of some charcoal pencils… is that… anything?)!
Thank you very, very much, Ms. K!
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this is simply superb and awesome 🙂
How very kind of you to say! Thank you so much!
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An image one can look at, over and over again… and never get tired.
I have been looking at it for a long time now. And my eyes like what they see. 🙂
Thank you so much, Malin! I was hoping this one would be interesting enough. I’m always kind of fascinated by the view from airplanes, but it seems like I often get ‘flat’ photos from them. Which means I tend to get even more carried away with the editing, of course.
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🙂 Of course it’s interesting enough.
Excellent!
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Those fields look rather even in size Bob – you’d never find such a patchwork quilt in England. I guess our farm landscape has been around for too long to be as uniform in its appearance. Interesting colors 🙂 Airplane!.. 🙂
I guess that’s how I tend to imagine the English countryside to be… more… organic.
HA! An organic countryside? You don’t say, Robert?! Really?! Hahaha… oh, boy… I don’t know what’s wrong with me, Martin?!
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Long time no see! Happy to see your post again!
The color of this picture absolutely expresses my feeling of today! So colorful and happy! 😀
True! Things have been kind of busy lately! Or, well… even busier than usual!
Thank you very, very much, Cristina!
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I love the colors in this. Road trips would be much more exciting if they were in living color.
I have a lot of photos to catch up on here, Sig! This is a beauty. The winding, squiggly river, the patchwork of colors, and you can’t go wrong with quoting Airplane.