A Sunday Hike, a great weekend

A couple of pictures I took on a short hike Stacy and I took yesterday(Sunday 7/19). It was actually a great weekend with dry not humid weather and comfortable temps until late afternoon when it got up to the low 90's.
These are pictures of the Upper Snow Creek Falls and then the Lower Snow Creek Falls about a quarter mile from each other North West of town about 15 miles. The weather was still comfortable the mosquitoes really bad at the lower falls

, but a good breeze at the larger area of the upper falls made it more comfortable to stay a while there.
And NO one else was there the entire time we were, another reason we like it here so much. No crowds at most places.

In the last post I was talking about the 40th anniversary (today's date) of the first lunar landing. While searching around the NASA website it had a link to get a print out of the hours you might get to see the International Space Station go by after sunset.
We got to see it pass over 4 times, once on Friday night, twice on Saturday night and then once last night. It was a spectacular thing to see, very bright in the night sky and a kind of goldish glow from the sunlight reflection off the solar panels, we were able to see it silently pass by about 200 miles overhead. We didn't have anything to really see it clearly enough to discern the panels themselves, but very bright and right on time, it was there!
Stacy and I used to in Phelan and still love to here, sit out and watch satellites go by. It is even better here because there are no city lights to wash out the sky here. Satellites, meteors, actually seldom are there aircraft flying by so it's even easier! If you live in an area away from large cities, get a nice recliner type of outdoor camp chair, be out just as the planets and stars become visible after sunset, sit back, relax and enjoy the show. How many can you see? It varies with some nights more than others, Saturday night in addition to seeing the ISS go by, we also saw 5 satellites, 2 meteors in about an hour, and millions of stars from the big dipper to looking into the heart of the galaxy as it stretched across the sky. Fantastic!

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