On Monday of this week I flew from Denver to Indianapolis for the purpose of picking up my Mother and flying her back to Colorado the next day. She will be 85 on August 27 and because of the way my schedule works this month, Konnie and I decided we would bring her to Colorado to spend a week of birthday celebration with us in advance of the actual date. After slipping in a dinner in Richmond, Indiana on Monday with my sisters and Mom, on Tuesday we flew to Denver. After spending a couple of days in Denver we drove to our place at 7800 feet 15 miles south of the nearest city lights of Steamboat Springs.
The nights are very cool here right now (about 45 degrees), the crescent moon sets before dark and there has not been a cloud in the sky for either day we have been here. So there they are, Carl Sagan's billions and billions of stars and other objects in the universe. They are incredibly dense here right now. It is perfectly clear and there is the Milky Way vivid in the pitch black sky and now add the Perseid meteor shower that has been displaying itself our first two nights here. Scores of long meteors, two simultaneously crossing paths and one crossing nearly the entire visible sky, long enough to detect a red color on its tip. Gorgeous.
Back to Denver from Steamboat on Monday. Returning Mother to Indiana on Tuesday and then staying two more days in the Hoosier state to conduct some local business.
What a fantastic birthday celebration for your mom, Skip! You even provided perfect weather and a meteor shower–very impressive!
You’re getting sooooo good with close – ups I’m leaving my camera at home from now on.