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fallible. The lights at that time ere characterized by their grey and

black tones, both in the sky and cloud intensities. The first area of
concern of the entire global sphere is that junction between the horizon
and the sky being more conspicious because of the sharper zone of contrast
and demarkation. With a slow but imperceptible increase of light one's
vision is directed downward to those sleeping clouds below just begining
to receive their almost immeasurable rays of reflected light. These
fracto-cumulus cloud masses are evenly spaced and extensive in distribution
broken in continuity only by some far distant eumulus and other larger
cloud masses. It would remind one of staring upward from the earth into
the heavens on a moonlight nite into a sky of closely arranged cloud
masses with the interstitial areas representing the ocean and the stars
the white caps of the water iim bee Occaisionally a large and bold
cumulus cloud would pass by, a monarch compared to the fracto-cumulus
below but also inferior to the lords of all the clouds the towering

anvil capped cumulus to present themselves later in the day.

Glancing directly below and with the light intensity sufficiently
strong to discern all details, one beholds a color with the deepest of all
blues nearly approximating the black or deepest blue of commercial washing
bluing. This blue merges outward with imperceptibility with the lighter
and more delicate blues of the distant horizon merging undifferentiated

into the blue sky above.

The sea below does not take on the dreaded feeling that one would
normally associate with such limitless expanses of water because the cloud
masses have a tendency to break up the expanse into many isolated fragments
which gives one the impression of land masses and earthly security in turn.
Again there are meny times, particularly when flying continuously above
the clouds when the fear of the ocean, or rather the lack of land security,
does not enter into your mind. Mechantcal trouble in the purring moters
would be the only thing that could cause one to refer to the omnipresent

hazard of the ocean below.