Flights of Fancy (LA Photo Challenge, 31OCT2022)

The Lens-Artist Photo Challenge is Flights of Fancy,  which is hosted by Johnbo this week. 

I will start with photos that whispered “flight of fancy” to me:

ABOVE: Up, up, and away – a fancy visual flight

ABOVE: After many a flight of fancy – the feathers always settle

ABOVE: Fledglings dream of future flights of fancy – while growing in the nest.

Johnbo described “Flights of Fancy” in so many different ways and gave us many options.  I liked the Farlex Dictionary definition

• Flight of Fancy can be an imaginative but impractical idea.
• Flight of Fancy is a cliché that uses flight in the sense of a soaring imagination, a usage first recorded in 1668. Given this sense, fancy (also meaning imagination) makes the phrase somewhat redundant.
• Oliver Goldsmith had the idea, if not the exact wording, in his poem “The Traveller” (1764):  “To men of other minds my fancy flies.” 

That line from Goldsmith’s Traveler poem led me to these next two images of travelers at the beach.

Above: Exhausted from so many flights of fancy, he crashed right there, in his beach chair

Above: Beam me up Scotty, I’m ready. I’ve been ready! Flights of Fancy take me away.

Let’s Close with a guitar solo – John Petrucci’s fancy take on “Flight of the Bumblebee” 

Linked to Journey’s with Johnbo (here)

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