TheBanyanTree: thoughts on a really good run

[Tom Smith]

Beautiful, Julie!  -both your experience and your communication
of it.   I love to hear someone say once in a while that they 
are happy where they are. 

The cool quiet pre-dawn environment nurses that rapture for 
me (plus the freedom to travel in the middle of the streets.)  
Did you catch the "morning stars?"   Jupiter and Venus are up 
now in the eastern sky at sunrise.  Jupiter is the fainter one 
above.  Got a picture of them with a cheap point-and shoot 
camera that amazingly revealed their round shapes.  There is 
a noticeable change in their positions day by day, and a star, 
Aldeberon, that helps give you a sense of how the planets are  
moving and where the plane of the ecliptic is.

image at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9482738@N07/7603815482