By Slanted Light

The Perseids are a meteor shower that can be seen at this time every year - the Earth passes through a trail of debris left by a comet that broke up, which I guess is now orbiting our sun in its own right, and when the debris hits Earth's atmosphere, it lights up as shooting stars (meteorites). Fab! I also saw lots of planes and/or satellites. One them might have been the International Space Station, too, which is quite cool. Not that I knew which one, but it was going past around the time that I was out there!

I'm going to cross my fingers that we have a lovely snowy winter (even if everyone else is cursing me as I wish... *g*) Cold and dry and snowy would be lovely, though! You may have your heat... *g* That said, the first kiss of summer really is lovely, and it's actually being a nice summer here too - I'm enjoying it! Just warm enough, and beautifully sunny with warm breezes for the last couple of days. Of course now we're forecast a couple of days of storms to make up for it! *g*