The Great Perseids meteor shower was to begin overnight and I figured that I'd better watch a bit before I went to bed.
The moment I stepped outside, a huge light streaked across the sky, in the blink of an eye, leaving a white smoke trail behind it.
I tracked the path back to the originating spot in the sky, adjusted my chair and sat down.
Monty raced towards the fence and growled after a juvenile raccoon who was curiously staring at us, and then he very deliberately sat down in the potato patch and looked around.
Soon, all I could see of him was a white blotch and the white tip of his tail as he snuffled about by the compost bin.
Over the next hour I saw about a half-dozen large meteors leave smoke in the sky - Earthgrazers as they are known - and marveled at the view.
Another half dozen or so satellites slowly and steadily tracked across the starry sky.
The bright half-moon probably obscured the dimmer meteors though.
I thought that if I was not in the middle of the city, and instead in a canoe drifting in a lake in Algonquin Park that I'd be enjoying the vista quite a lot more.
Spring was sleeping, so I didn't wake her to come out and see.
Cheers,
Mungo
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