Being disappointed for not feeling what I expected to feel. Would I have felt had I not expected or hoped for it?
Sat Sep 12, 2020 11:32 PM
If you look closely, you can see stars, little white dots. My camera didn’t have the long enough exposure to capture what I saw that night.
For a birthday trip, I traveled to Chahelis. The first night there, I took a trip outside of town onto Apple Blossom Road and then a side road away from potential headlights. I hoped to avoid people looking at me suspiciously while I gaze at the sky. It was so dark. I heard the wind rustling the trees, the crickets chirping, and party guests laughing while at a house party some distance away. It was kind of spooky. Occasionally cars would pass. I think I was far enough from the road that drivers wouldn’t notice me. I covered my eyes to avoid letting the lights affect my vision.
I stared up at the clear sky. It’s so different looking at a clear country sky vs being in a suburb or city. The light pollution doesn’t allow you to see may stars. But here, where there are fewer lights, the stars are plenty. Thousands of them. I can even see the faintness of the Milky Way Galaxy, which looks like a faint hazy cloud stretching across the sky.
I saw two satellites passing over. They weren’t aircraft and neither were the ISS. The ISS would have been nearly as bright as Venus. I didn’t see any shooting stars like I did several years ago when I traveled to Pothole State Park, which I didn’t realize there was a meteor shower going on at the time.
After a while, I got back into my car and went back to the hotel. I forgot something in the trunk and went back outside. I looked at the sky to compare what I had seen before. It was like a hazy fog by comparison. And just then, a bright meteor shot across the sky. At first so quickly and then it slowed down and disappeared. Maybe it landed somewhere near Spokane. Wow, how fortunate was I to glance up at the sky and see it at that moment?
