The Importance of Being Idle

Wow

It's a cold, clear amazingly beautiful night tonight. I don't think I've seen a night for star-gazing like it in a very long time, but I have noticed a few things I coulda done a bit better.
Firstly, much as I love my Converses, they are not the shoes to be out in sub-zero temperatures in, cos they aren't even a little bit warm. Secondly, they're not even a little bit waterproof either. Thirdly, I have no idea where my cool big woolly scarf might be, gonna have to find that tomorrow, and fourthly, do I own any gloves at all?
Those issues aside though, wow! The moon is low in the sky, and hardly disrupting the light at all, and the sky is as clear and bright as I have ever known it. There's a little moisture high in the atmosphere making the stars twinkle attractively, but... I really am just lost for words. There isn't a great deal that can just utterly flummox me like that, but the night sky is one of the things that can (and also the one that kinda undermines the phrase 'great deal' as it is in fact the overwhelming majority of the universe). Orion (always my favourite) is huge and majestic, dominating my sky, with detail visible that I hardly recall seeing even when I was a kid. It's just... the most amazing thing.
I guess what I'm saying is that I love the night sky. And if you're one of those people that just doesn't get that, well why don't you go out one night, and look up. It's pretty amazing.

posted by BadMonkey @ 1:50 AM