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Perseid Meteor Shower - Day 13

30 Day Blogging Challenge - DAY 13 at Yellowstone

http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/promising-perseid-meteor-shower-peak...
http://earthsky.org/tonight/watch-these-stars-while-watching-the-perseids?utm_so...

Perseid Meteor Shower peaks tonight, it is going to be a spectacular night to watch the sky with no light pollution. We really are in for a great show especially at 2:00am, its going to be a short night sleeping, we'll rest tomorrow once we arrive at Canyon Village.
You'll find this campground close to the breathtaking Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone near the center of the park. Offers stores, restaurants, pay showers, a coin laundry and a sanitary dump station, but no utility hookups. No camp cooking tonight, we are going to try one of the restaurants.

What did you see? How did it make you feel? There are lots of videos out there to see this, I suggest you check it out. I posted two links but there are many others.

If you feel inclined compose a poem to share with us at dinner tonight.

Perseid Meteor Shower

Quiet is the night that surrounds me,
I lay down upon the cool, hard ground
Feel the dampness
Caress my skin and sink into my clothing.
My eyes scan the sky
waiting, waiting for the show to begin
The peace and tranquility of the midnight hour descends
and holds the world still
Waiting, waiting for the show to begin.
Then light streaks across the blackened depths
Silent streams of bright, white
Zinging across the celestial heavens
Breathtakingly awesome
I watch, transfixed
As the streaks cut across the sky
With an intensity that is beyond this world.
I feel so small,
Inconsequential,
Yet also so connected
I am part of this
This great, wonderful
Universe.