… or … “spring is in the air” …

I took a walk at the KY Horse Park the other day. I think it was our third or fourth sunny day in a row (something we hadn’t seen in what felt like months). Each sunny day was a little warmer than the one before, and on this particular afternoon, the temperature was somewhere in the 60s. If you kept your head up, rather than looking down at all the wintery brown grass in the fields and pastures, you could see buds on the trees. And someone in some sort of odd ultralight hang-gliding contraption, flying noisily around the park.  

I did make the mistake of looking back down at the brown grass at one point, only to be faced with a remarkably large (given the weather) pile of snow lingering near the corner of Nina Bonnie Rd and Marks Lane.

For the next leg of my walk, I was determined to focus again on the trees. It was then that I heard, and then saw — flying low, slowly, and loudly — one of the World War II-era planes that lives here in Lexington and flies around with some regularity. This particular plane is an original, restored T-6 Texan, a large, single-engine aircraft used to train pilots from World War II through the 1950s. We’ve seen this plane and others from the same era flying over our neighborhood. I also have a couple of photos (below) of a replica bi-plane that I’ve seen flying over the Horse Park. We get modern jets and propeller planes flying over Lexington, of course, but to my mind these old ones sound so much more interesting.