Enjoying Autumn’s Dawn
The morning of All Saint’s Day, we went outside to feel the crisp, cool air. We played with our shadows and took the plastic mini-skulls off the of the rose bush. There was a foggy dew that hovered in the air and diffused the lights of the houses down the street.
This morning, we, Dad, Mom, and Kyle, woke up earlier than usual for different reasons. Dad enjoys keeping track of the International Space Station. He wakes me up to go see it. Kyle awoke just before dawn as he usually does, but since the time change to Standard, dawn comes just before 6am. So the three of us went outside to see the ISS, which had recently been separated from the space shuttle Discovery, so it looked a little different through the binoculars. The air was so cool that we wore socks. Socks! I hadn’t worn socks since February and had a hard time finding them. Haha!
After watching the ISS/Discovery float across the sky, we stayed to watch the Iriduim (satellite) flares. After looking up for a few minutes, we saw a small, yellow light to the right of the moon. It brightened and brightened some more… then it withered into nothing. It lasted only a few seconds. We also stayed to catch the Hubble telescope pass through the sky, but we didn’t see it. The sun was rising too quickly.
Birds were waking, scuttling about. The peafowl pair rustled the leaves in the neighbor’s tree. It was time to go inside for coffee.
