Another beautiful, cool, high desert morning in the chaparral. I walked the dogs at around 3:30 am, under a clear, dark sky overhead. As the season progresses, the Pleiades are now visible in the northeastern morning sky. These are the harbinger of one of my favorite constellations, Orion, which will soon be visible in the eastern morning sky. Jupiter was bright and clear in the southeast sky. And in a broad band from the north to the southwest, the Milky Way cut its swath. Beautiful.
The air was full of desert scents, and also, intermittently, the musky odor of some large mammal (I'm guessing a mountain lion, but I didn't see it). All four of our dogs were quiet, noses down, scoping out the events of last evening. They were happy to go back inside the house; I think they were nervous because of the animal smells...
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