What a difference a few thousand feet make. These photos were taken six days ago as we approached London Heathrow. The first was taken up above the clouds as the first light of dawn made an appearance.

A view of an airplane wing from an airplane window, flying over a cloud cover sky below with the first light of dawn on the horizon.

As the plane descended into Heathrow we dropped into the cloud beneath us, and we stayed in it. The land did not come into view until a few hundred feet from touch down. It was pea soup fog until landing, and we arrived to a murky rainy day.

A view of an airplane wing from the window of the plane. The wing is surrounded by thick cloud less than a thousand feet over east London as an airplane comes into land.

Thankfully the weather had brightened up since….though next week does not look so hopeful.