We recently took off from IAH in Houston in the morning.  I always wish I could identify landmarks on the ground below, but I rarely can.

 High above Houston area.

 As we are climbing to cruising altitude, we see the ground below the clouds.

 We are flying next to some clouds above which we will fly.

 We we treated to a rainbow from above!

 Looking down on the clouds and  small looking ground, perhaps from cruising altitude.

I had expected this flight to be a little rough,  hearing some reports of “weather’, but it was smooth.  The tops of the clouds are smooth, which I associate with smooth flights.  Do you see how dark the sky above is here?  There is less atmosphere to distribute the light, so it looks nearly black.    We are close to the lower edge of the stratosphere above the troposphere.