Skywatch Friday on Sliabh an Iarainn

On Monday we went on a fund-raising walk up Sliabh an Iarainn, the Iron Mountain in Leitrim, and of course I took the camera. The skies went from blue to grey and back again, but the rain stayed away for most of the day.

More photos from this walk are posted here, at a post about it on my Stony River blog.

And you can see more skies around the world at Skywatch Friday.

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Skywatch Friday in Air and Space

The sky was blue behind the clouds as we drove through Cumberland Maryland, and the sunset was pretty in Hagerstown.

But the next morning in Washington DC was grey and drizzly, and the day stayed that way, hour after hour. Of course, that didn't stop us (or other family and friends who were visiting) from taking photos all over the place.

When the museums opened at 10am we took our skywatching inside, to the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.

WOW!

There were airplanes and rockets, fascinating displays and moon rocks, warplanes and spy drones and stories, everywhere. The kids loved it.

We even visited the Wright Brothers and they agreed to join us in a family photograph on their front porch, wasn't that nice of them? Now if only I'd remembered to readjust my camera settings after coming in from the brightly lit atrium... oh well.

Tomorrow night our journey back to Ireland begins; the weather reports say it's raining there too. Quel surprise! But at least our plane ride will be slightly more comfortable than Charles Lindbergh's must have been. We could almost reach out to touch his airplane, and seeing it hanging there hardly larger than our family car made his amazing journey more real---and astounding.

You can visit the Smithsonian's Air & Space Museum on their website, and you can visit skies around the world at Skywatch Friday.