Hooray for the Sky Show !

so I walked outside last night, a little after 11 pm local time.  This stray thought  was going thru my head as I stepped onto the grass, something like .....gosh I wonder if I will see any............ and that thought was accompanied by that little vague feeling of doubt...and exactly then I raised my eyes to the straightoverhead sky and a Huge, Long, Spectacular streak of a meteor flew in this beautiful arc right over my eyes.  Not just any ol' meteor , either. This baby had a super maroon color I don't think I have seen before in a meteor. Wow.

So I stayed out there for an hour or so. Flashes and streaks and arcs, quite a show.

I went out again, around 2 am.  So quiet this time of night.  I hear and feel the ocean, and  the gentle tradewinds, and the quiet is broken every few minutes by the "barking" of a little brown gecko. (how do some of these little things make such great big and wondrous sounds ???).  more streaks of silent meteors (silent to human ears, anyway !) Just as I am ready to pack it in for the night, there's this amazing one.  Not star-colored, but white with a hint of limegreen.  Instead of doing a single zip across a stretch of sky,  this one visually grew thicker as it flew. then  thicker again. and the color intensity waxed and waned.  then it blew itself out, leaving a faint trail that lasted several more seconds.  Designers of fireworks on earth, could use this as their prototype.

and you better believe, I will be out there again tonight !