The Home Town From Up There

As I was bidding for next month's schedule, I discovered that the company had added a New Orleans overnight. I jumped on it, of course, but didn't think I was senior enough to get one. I got three. So now I've been back to the southland twice. It's kind of a crappy overnight... we get in at eleven at night and leave the next day at six AM. Not much time to get into the kind of trouble that will let you do your job the next morning. Point is, it was a limited engagement, so don't think ill of me if you didn't hear I was in town. But I digress...
As we were flying in the first night, I got the pilots to call me up to the flight deck when we were over Baton Rouge. Twenty one thousand feet affords quite the view. I had the lights of BR right below, New Orleans in front of that, Lafayette and Opelousas off to the right, and Alexandria on the left. And I could pick out individual features of Baton Rouge, even from four miles up... saw the capitol building, the bridge, Tiger Stadium, Cortana Mall, and believe it or not, the neighborhood I grew up in.
None of the pictures turned out. You'll just have to trust me.