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I like to watch the night sky and stars on a clear evening.
A couple of weeks ago when The Old Girl was working late in the study (her office) I turned the TV off and all the lights (other than the study) and sat on the deck looking at the stars. At one point, to get a better view I lay down on my back on the deck table and stayed like that for a while ... until The Old Girl finished up in the study and came into the kitchen to get a glass of water. She had thought I'd gone to bed and when she saw me on the table out on the deck she jumped and exclaimed "what the hell are you doing out there?"
I told her that I was looking at the Southern Cross. She in turn looked at me strangely. I then told her that sometimes, when she's away, on a clear evening I climb up on the roof to get a better view. She was aghast and said "not on my watch Matey!"
I was thinking of Patti Smith's song 'Beneath the Southern Cross'. Here's an excellent live performance she did at an interview on Skavlan:
When you see the Southern Cross for the first timeYou understand now why you came this way'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from is so smallBut it's as big as the promise, the promise of a comin' day
- Stephen Stills.
The inspired sky
Amazed to stumbleWhere gods get lostBeneathThe southern cross
- Patti Smith.
You are blessed to have a sky unpolluted by electric lighting. I agree with your misses about climbing up on the roof though!
ReplyDeleteNah, he'll be safe enough up there. They probably did this all the time when he was in 3P.
ReplyDeleteWell, it was a higher class.
ReplyDeleteActually, when you were in 3P, 4R had their lessons on the first floor in the old brick building. Most of your lessons would have been on the ground floor, maybe except for science. 4R were a step up.
ReplyDeleteNo, from memory there must have been at least twenty steps up.
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