Perseids

Oh, a negative astro-report . . . late Tuesday night, Gay and I put out a couple of lawn chairs and looked through hazy skies, hoping to see a Perseid or two. No luck. I went back out at 02:30, near the max, and saw nothing. The moon was coming up, but still behind a tree, and I could see Vega and Deneb. But no meteors in a half hour.

Put the Questar out on the porch so it could warm up to ambient temperature, but when I got up at 5:30 guilt drove me to the novel, even though the moon was ove