Early morning opportunities

With summer here, Gene needs to be at work earlier, and yet we enjoy walking together in the mornings, so we are now getting up at 3 am, so we can be walking by 3:30. This seems to be working okay. In fact it is enjoyable to see early morning stars and to appreciate the coolness of the morning, before the heat of the day.

One day last week, as we walked in the early morning darkness, I saw a light streaking down the sky. Initially, I thought it was an airplane and became concerned about it steep rate of decent. It was in the sky long enough for me to actually point it out to Gene and we both watched it disappear.

This morning, Gene pointed to an owl resting on a power line, with his head turned, watching the crazy man, woman and two dogs walking so early morning, before flying away. I have only witnessed owls in the wild on a couple of occasions in my lifetime, and they leave me with a sense of awe each time.

So while I may miss a few early morning z-z-z-s. I am getting to see things that I would miss if I were laying in bed.