The Call of the Sky

This picture could be viewed together with Jan's blip from the 12th. The shadows running out of the right of her picture are the same shadows creeping into the left of my picture.
We were out for the walk down to "our" lake because the weather was so good, and because Jan really needed to get away from the language work she has been working on for days!
Spring is getting closer, as the raw earth of the ploughed field shows. However, the lake, the large flat area across the centre of the picture, is still well frozen and snow covered.
This morning I saw and heard a mixed flock of 25 swans and canada geese flying over our house. They were randomly mixed and flying together in a perfect V. Two different species cooperating so well seems a metaphor for how different people should be able to get along....
I loved the clouds in this picture. Cumulus clouds are usually randomly distributed but with the right conditions the whole sky can become structured so the clouds form in long lines, with blue sky between the lines. Glider pilots call these "cloud streets" because there is lift all the way along if you fly under the line of clouds. (And sinking air along the cloudless sections either side of the "street".)
I must admit I felt the call of the air slightly, the wish to be under those clouds, sharing the air with the lines of swans and geese. But gravity kept my feet firmly on the ground!
I realised that tiredness and busy days meant I owed Blipfoto three pictures. This is the middle one,from yesterday, today's picture is here and yesterday's here.