Jorge Ortiz Colom captured this picturesque view just south of Philadelphia:

This is Fort Mifflin with the Delaware River in the background. The fortification was built in 1771 by British authorities as a reaction to the instability of the just-finished French and Indian War. When the United States War for Independence began, the fort was quickly seized by the insurgents and it was continuously repaired by American and French soldiers. It was used as a prison in the War Between the States of the 1860s and it had other minor military roles afterward. It was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1970.

This photograph was taken from an Airbus A320 airplane landing in Philadelphia International Airport on the late afternoon of Oct. 11, 2015, as I flew in to board another flight to Spain. It was taken with a Sony DSC-HX10V point-and-shoot camera, which has a tendency to delay the shutter slightly—but I was able to anticipate, albeit briefly, the fort, so I had the good fortune of the shutter going off at the right time!

Your Editor Applauds: Good for Jorge. I hope he had as good a time in Spain as I did recently. Bilinguism comes in handy again.