A close up photo of a Crow flying towards you !! - “As the Crow flies !!”
The expression ‘as the crow flies’ is an idiom for the most direct path between two points. In geometry, a geodesic is a curve representing in some sense the shortest path (arc) between two points in a surface, or more generally in a Riemannian manifold. The meaning of the expression is attested from the early 19th century, ...