Cold and clear this morning. Last night I watched Orion rising, it was magnificent. From the horizon, where every heavenly body looks huge, first his bow then a shoulder and all the way to his right foot emerged, and looked as if he should sweep up into the sky and loom over even the moon.

I am grieved over too many urban dwellers moving out into the deep rural mountains. They do not really understand what it is like to live in nature. Part of being in the country is to experience the night. The first thing they usually so it have large security lights installed on the utility poles and flood the area with light. This disrupts the night-dwellers and dims the stars. It is not really "day" and we never see "night." We now hang in a perpetual dirty twilight.

I miss the stars.