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Watching the dawn
For no particular reason, I was wide awake at about 4am this morning.
I pulled back my curtains and the sky was the clearest I've seen it all year. I could see all the stars, picked out Orion and Taurus in the sky above my house clear as day (y'know, in a manner of speaking). Which, with the amount of light pollution in this area, is really unusual.
And then there was the moon, right there in the East, a slim crescent and so completely beautiful.
With the sky so clear, it should have been cold, but it wasn't, so I opened my window wide and just stared at the sky.
And I watched the dawn over the Bristol Channel, watched the sky turn slowly blue, saw the moon wander out of my sight and the stars wink out one by one.
I haven't done that for so very long. Nothing's gonna top that today.
I pulled back my curtains and the sky was the clearest I've seen it all year. I could see all the stars, picked out Orion and Taurus in the sky above my house clear as day (y'know, in a manner of speaking). Which, with the amount of light pollution in this area, is really unusual.
And then there was the moon, right there in the East, a slim crescent and so completely beautiful.
With the sky so clear, it should have been cold, but it wasn't, so I opened my window wide and just stared at the sky.
And I watched the dawn over the Bristol Channel, watched the sky turn slowly blue, saw the moon wander out of my sight and the stars wink out one by one.
I haven't done that for so very long. Nothing's gonna top that today.