Ultralights, powered parachutes, and powered para-gliders are popular, and they look like a good time, but I make myself remember the old saying about mountain climbers. They get way up there, where they can hear the wind whistle through the holes in their head. I don't like ladders, either, but they are a necessary evil. Anyhow, this powered parachute has been flying from a neighbor's place, and yesterday there was a friend flying another machine as they toured the the neighborhood.
The small airfield at which I landed was deserted. The soft evening wind, the scent of the alfalfa, the fading grasp of the sun slipping into night. Ah, a true pause of time and space in remembrance that all is right in the world.
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The quiet of that serene moment rudely torn asunder by two airborne lawmowers circling like angry hornets looking for their victim. Straight away I resented them their brutal intrusion to ravage my every sense. They are not aviators, they loft upon billowing sheets. Take your noise and hastily depart.