Joys, Redux

Earlier this week I posted a list of joyful things. One was shooting stars/meteors. Two nights ago I viewed a "big one," (Can you say that on television?), a long, wide streaking meteor. It might well have been part of the Perseids or Leonids, whichever meteor shower is visible this week. And, to make it cooler, Bopper, in another car a couple miles away, heading home, too, saw it!

Wed AM, out running, a deer crossed my path, maybe only 20-30 yards in front of me. I kept running, smile on my face. Following the first was a second, then a third, then.... There were nine of them, all leaping through the snow, over and down a hill, across the road and up and over a hill. How cool! But, as a note of interest, they are not at all "cute." In fact, up close they are pretty ugly, fur all matted, not particularly bright/shiny, etc. But, still, cool to see so many.