Finally a beautiful sunny, warm 74 deg. day with the wind down runway 23 at 5 knots. I checked the winds at 3,000 feet, Light and Variable. It sounded perfect to me. I took off just before 5pm today, and headed east. The pictures were taken while east bound, looking North, West and South.
I got to our house at Lake Louisa in about 10 minutes but it was so bumpy I gave up and wandered back to the airport. The sun was still high enough on such a clear day that we had plenty of thermal activity.
I flew for a half hour and made a nice landing so I'm glad I went. I'll try again tomorrow.