Some of you know this.... I used to live in Seattle. And Houston. And the Dallas- Fort Worth area. And some other pretty dang big towns. I can say with first hand knowledge how beautiful city lights can be. The lights of Seattle reflecting on the water of Puget Sound are a favorite memory of mine. But the one thing that used to bother the begeezers out of me is that you could barely see the stars in those places of my past. Seattle not only has the light pollution but almost constant cloud cover. It was very sad to know the stars were there an not be able to see them. Like ever....
These last few nights I have now had a reason to be out traipsing around my yard after dark. The Judge and Jury need to have one last pee-pee before bedtime! I'm thankful the weather has been unusually cooperative for such things. I have actually really been enjoying our little night patrols. My big boy has been joining me. He's been in his jammies and slips on my giant thermal Muck boots and coat and we go....
Each time I'm outside after dark in Geraldine my eyes are always cast upward. I probably look like such a goon, staring up all the time. But the stars are so bright it feels like you could reach up and grab one! All the little teeny ones are there! The Milky Way is there! Orion and the Dippers and lots of other constellations that I have no clue the names of, are there! It actually does make a person feel closer to God to all his wonder like that.
Tonight there is actually a slight cloud cover. Kinda uncommon out here, but sure enough there's clouds. A few of the big, bright stars are shining through but that's all we could see. Payson looked up and said, " Mom, where are all the stars? " I explained the clouds covering them and that they will be back. "Ok", he said. " 'Cuz last night we could see the whole galaxy." Yup.... we sure could.
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| It's pretty hard to get a decent photo of stars. At least hard for me. So here's one of the sunset out west of town. |
'Til next time,
B
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