
(clipart from clker.com)

News Report: Fox 12 Oregon News—>Cause of Fourth of July power outage in Seaside: A red, white and blue balloon

Synchronous Fireflies light up the night for two weeks a year in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee
Watch Video: Dazzling FireFly Light Show—NBC News

300,000 jam Portland streets for Starlight Parade –KOIN News report and slideshow

NaPoWriMo–Day 2–prompt: constellations
This prompt inspired me to write this poem of childhood memories of clear night skies out in the country where we lived, looking up at all the stars and listening to dad tell us about the constellations and point out which ones we were seeing.

Sorry the picture is not very good. Sigh….I wish I had a really good camera to capture some of the amazing sights I see! I was so excited to see this moon and bright star last night (which I later found out was Venus) but quite disappointed that I could not take a good picture of it. For more information and better picture visit EarthSky.org