{"id":1743,"date":"2013-10-11T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2013-10-11T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T16:40:00","slug":"flying-high-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/11\/flying-high-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying High"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1745\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/160b-over-lake-sonoma.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1745\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1745\" alt=\"View of Lake Sonoma from the plane looking West\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/160b-over-lake-sonoma.jpg?resize=432%2C576\" width=\"432\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Lake Sonoma from the plane looking West<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week I took off for Portland to teach at the Art &amp; Soul creative retreat.\u00a0 Before going I was pretty stressed out, getting all the materials ready for the two all day workshops I was teaching, putting substitute plans together for the art classes I was missing here at the elementary school, and just the pre-travel laundry, packing, and general tying up of loose ends.\u00a0 But one thing I\u2019ve found is that once I\u2019m at the airport it all just washes away.\u00a0 The bags are packed and if I forgot something well I\u2019ll deal.\u00a0 I have my boarding pass the plane is on time on the tarmac.\u00a0 It is all out of me hands. A deep calm comes over me.\u00a0 I flew out of our local little airport in Santa Rosa. It is very low-key.\u00a0 There is only one flight on a small plane going at any one time so the feeling of cattle being taken to market is just not there.\u00a0 The planes are small only four seats wide and the flight to Portland is short, an hour and a half.\u00a0 I always get a window seat, I love to see the ground below, the human activity getting smaller and smaller, flying over squares of houses and industry then fields and farms and finally unblemished wild lands too rugged to bend to human will.\u00a0 Then of course the thrill of pushing through the swirling white moist mists and arriving on top of the clouds, visions of heavens pearly gates, and lounging cherubs are easy to image from this vantage point.\u00a0 This time I broke the rules (don\u2019t tell Horizon Air) but I didn\u2019t turn off my device, I turned my I pad out the window and snapped pictures until the clouds took over.\u00a0 Then I used the rest of the trip to draw this first image on my iPad of Lake Sonoma and the rough robust rising hills that rise up to meet the western horizon.\u00a0 I finished it just as we landed.\u00a0 What a satisfying start to my Portland endeavor.\u00a0 After a lovely visit with my dear Portlandia friends, and feeling satisfied and weary from my two workshops at Art &amp; Soul.\u00a0 I hit the airport again.\u00a0 The window seat awaited.\u00a0 This time I took photos of the Willamette river as it runs through the center of the city with Portland\u2019s signature bridges and the clover leaf of freeways that funnel down to a bridge size crossing from east to west and back again.\u00a0 In the bottom left hand corner is the shadow of the plane and I\u2019m just below the east wing, rising up, up, up flowing south smiling at my good fortune to glimpse the earth for a moment like a bird or a celestial being &#8211; unbound.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1744\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/160a-over-portland.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1744\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1744\" alt=\"View of Portland Oregon from the plane looking East\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/160a-over-portland.jpg?resize=432%2C576\" width=\"432\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Portland Oregon from the plane looking East<\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>I think these pieces would make wonderful large fabric art, with dense stitching and some hand sewing too, I\u2019d love to get up in a plane to take some more photos soon&#8230;. this feels like a series coming on!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I took off for Portland to teach at the Art &amp; 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