Wannabe by Luca Debus for June 29, 2024

Lol, who needs stars anyway??

It used to be magic, going outside in inky blackness except for the lightning bugs and the constellations, especially during meteor showers when the stars seemed to dance around you. Even the tiniest backyard was a fairyland, sure to have lunar moths and a resident owl

I used to live in a small town in Wyoming that was at 7,000 ft (2134 m) on a cold winter night when the humidity was in single digits along with the temperature, you could go outside and see the Milky Way Galaxy. It looked like diamond dust had been strewed across the sky.

I have always lived in a suburb, but in the summer we’d come down to the wilds of the Eastern Shore of Maryland (east of the Bay), and it was appropriately dark. Even now you can still see the Milky Way.

BTW, that light pollution effect is gorgeous!

That’s what bright and funny friends are for.

(senses a quotation twist in this cartoon)

(note: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde)

Cheers. :)

Madman, drummers, bummers

Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat

In the dumps with the mumps

As the adolescent pumps his way into his hat

With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin’ kinda older

I tripped the merry-go-round

With this very unpleasin’, sneezin’ and wheezin’

The calliope crashed to the ground

Blinded by the light

Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Or is it the Northern Lights?