Starry night

It might be colder than a witch's tit here in Seattle at the moment, but I honestly can't complain about it too much...BECAUSE IT'S NOT RAINING.

It's been sunny so far this week...the days and nights have been completely clear. Tons of blue sky during the day, although it looks like morning all day long because of how far south the sun is...just lulls down there on the horizon (I can only imagine how much this sucks for the people in Alaska right now).

What sucks is that I don't get to enjoy the day...I'm stuck inside the office. And the sun sets here by 4 p.m. so it's dark when I leave to go home. But the cool thing about this week is that the nights are as pretty as the days. Last night we had a completely full moon and tons of stars, most of which could be seen very clearly even from the city.

This is the part when I take advantage of the rooftop on my building. I bundled up when I got home from the horse barn and headed up. Sooo amazing. The view from my rooftop goes across Lake Union to Queen Anne, the Space Needle, South Lake, and the Fremont bridge. If I had a super special camera that I could capture the crazy "nightscape" with, I certainly would have. In the daytime, my view looks like this:


So, just imagine that at night with tons of house lights and street lamps on the hill in the distance, some big stars, and the light of a full moon. Sigh.

For all of this beauty here in the Northwest, it is still not the prettiest night I've ever seen. The best star-gazing that I've ever done was in southern Arizona...Tombstone to be exact. I went on my first and only trip down there when my parents visited me this past year before I moved away from Phoenix. Upon first arriving in Tombstone, I didn't really understand why any of the pioneers would have founded that town where they did (aside from the damn mining of course), but then night came, and it was a whole other story. The sky there is so dark, and it's so far away from any large towns that there isn't really any haze. You can see more stars than you would ever imagine possible. The sky is literally black:


There are a ton of other places that I think would be great for star-gazing that I haven't explored yet...Montana and Alaska come to mind. Hmmm...roadtrip? I think so!

Song of the day: "In the Summertime" Rural Alberta Advantage (cause it sounds like a "starry" song...and the lyrics are killer)