On my walk back from my group run/beer/food tonight, it was hard to miss Jupiter near the partially clad moon. I knew Mars was somewhere in the sky, but it took a bit to find due to my orientation. I walked onward, periodically spinning around to catch them. It was just long enough of a stroll for my eyes to adjust, at least as best as you can expect with cars and street lamps. I'm not sure if it's more fun spying stars and planets I know, or wondering about the ones I do not. As I made my way closer to home, I saw the Big Dipper with Polaris in its sights. Unfortunately, there's far too much light pollution where I live to see more than a few stars of the Little Dipper.

I cut my post for “yesterday” a little close, so it seems fitting that before I go to bed I post for “today”. Midnight is such a fickle, if constant, thing. The photo for this post I took using my simple point-and-shoot camera via a tripod and by fiddling with its settings. And of course, Photoshop. Have you seen the Hubble shots? Those colors are fake! But still, awesome. So, Jupiter and its moons don't have a blueish/purplish tone to them. But they could, if your mind is properly aligned.

I see the moons of Jupiter

sitting on a plane

I know you’re crossing the country

never to see me again

Jet set fashionable

screaming for romance

Never looking over your shoulder

Always pushing away

I’m alone in the ink dark night

stars singing while sitting in place

White blue yellow red

light streaking to me

even while they might already be dead

Relative time

no matter what the in-laws might believe

Mars is rising

the moon is falling

I’m left to my own devices

I’m not sure if you’ve left

any pieces of me