Stargazing

[felis_lupus]

The last three nights have showcased a beautiful full Corn Moon. Someone at practice on Tuesday commented (as I was shouting in the parking lot for everyone to look up at the orange-hued orb rising over the trees... ok, got a few funny looks...) that after all these thousands of years staring at the sky, the wonderment and awe of gazing upon a full moon would have worn off by now. It hasn't. Why? Is it because she's the closest thing we can really see hanging in the sky? Our Luna doesn't burn like the sun, she's just there, pulling at our own internal tides as well as the oceans'. There's just nothing like standing barefoot in cool grass, light breezes playing with my hair, bathed in moonlight. Though some nights, succumbing to the urge to climb up to a rooftop and howl seems like a pretty good idea.

These last nights have got to be in part to make up for the lack of Perseids earlier this month... cloudy during the best day, of course. Also on Tuesday, whilst headed to Uno's for post-practice dinner, a bright, slow falling star started at the top of my windshield and tracked allll the way to the bottom. That one was mine. (Everyone else was too busy watching where they were driving, I'm sure...)

We're not that far out of the city, but far enough that we get a good view of stars here... it's only when I leave home, and go south to my parents', or north, as we did earlier this month to Chewonki campground, that I am reminded just how many stars there are. It is truly a beautiful night.