Three Little Words

No eloquent words for me today. I just want to make note of the fact that I love the prairie at night. You can see every single star, the milky way looks milky, and a shooting star is nearly a guarantee. The sky is so vast I got lost looking for familiar constellations. I found the Big Dipper! I know Orion is around there somewhere, but the thousands of stars I couldn't see before suddenly sprang to life and obscured my view. I think I finally found him, but it took a while. I could lay out for hours under the stars, searching for the known and unknown shapes, thinking about God, creation, eternity, contemplating the truly important things in life. Perhaps when it gets too cold for mosquitoes I'll spread my blanket and stay awhile under the stars...pondering the existence of mosquitoes...