@roamer_1
Most people these days either live in a city or residential area where there are so many lights they can't really see the stars. Hell,most of them have never even heard "quiet".
That's right. I have kin that come out from the city, and they never come but that they comment on it being too dang quiet for em, and that they can't sleep for it...
But of course that really ain't true - The night is alive - it's just a different kind of noise... That they can't hear at all.
Who doesn't if the mosquitoes will let them? If there is something you can do that brings you more peace and happiness than all that wonder,I don't know what it would be. I really don't think I can overstate how tranquil this can make you,no matter how wound-up you got that day. Greatest tranquilizer ever,and it doesn't cost a dime or have any negative side effects.
I guess this could just be me,but I doubt it.
@sneakypete That's exactly right - It is my singular favorite time of day...
I live on what passes for a highway hereabouts... that goes up to a fairly popular lake, and feeds up from there back up onto the gravel... There's a lot of traffic going by, especially morning and night when folks are coming down out of the sticks to work, or going up to go home... but pretty much all day too, this time of year, with folks coming and going to the lake...
But late night it's sacred silence... Big cup of Sleepy Time tea, Nothing on the highway. the breeze in the cottonwoods, the coyotes yappin up on the mountain... Night birds callin back and forth... and that humongous, magnificent sky.
Nothing but peace. I hear you, man, I really do.
It ain't half as good as up in the proper sticks, but it'll do.
That's probably more related to the lack of residential and city lights where you live than the actual grid coordinates. People that live in cities just can't see them because of all the glare from the other lights.
They don't know what they're missin. It leaves me breathless. Every night, all the time.
They get it when they finally see it in all its glory... Take em way up in the sticks, up on top of Sarah Peak, way back in the south fork, where you can look in every direction and not see a single electric light anywhere... And the night starts to tell it's story at dusk with a few stars coming out... and by an hour past dark, OMG, but it's magnificent.
Beyond magnificence... There just ain't any word that will do. They just don't know what to do with it all. Heck, I've been lookin at it nigh on 50 years, and I still don't know what to do with it all.