The Leonids

I read that a meteor shower would be happening in the early morning in the east sky tomorrow morning (Nov 18).  Meteor showers are named after the constellation from which it appears that the shower originates. Word has it that you may see 10 or more an hour if you have a dark sky and look east early in the morning in Leo.

On a similar morning, ten or eleven years ago, I was up early one morning to walk around our neighborhood in Kingman, AZ for a little exercise. I looked up and saw several shooting stars in just a few minutes.

I immediately headed home and wanting to share it with someone and recognizing that Vicki valued sleep more than shooting stars, I woke Katherine and asked her if she wanted to she some meteors.  She said "sure" so I pulled out the Levi quilt, laid it out on the ground like a sleeping bag and we crawled in to stay warm and count shooting stars.

In less than 20 minutes we counted over 100.  We saw most of them at the same time but I missed one that Katherine didn't.  I had glanced down at the quilt when suddenly the sky lit up.  I could easily see the ties on the quilt. "Oooo" Katherine exclaimed.  I looked up, but all I could see was the smoke left from the meteor.

What a pleasant memory that was.