Thursday 24 July 2014

Misty .... Shiny ..... Dots ....

So, lately people ask me if I have shifted my base to the U.S.A. Why bole tho, I changed my sleep wake cycle again! Sleeping in the morning.... working in the night kind of a schedule.
I can't even begin to talk about the good things about working late.
I get to have the whole lab for myself, everything is quiet so I can think better, etc etc.
But then there are some unusual treats of working this late as well, pleasant surprises, sometimes even splendid!
I went out to take a stroll three hours ago.
There is this stretch of open space beyond the lab, nicely covered with a lot of autumn leaves still lying there and since there have been rains, they take this earthy dark brown to light brown colours which is both nice and sometimes a little annoying to look at.
There are a lot of tall trees, whose leaves fall asleep, flanking all three sides of this open space.
I looked at the long dark open space, felt a little eerie (the added cold air was not helping in any way to this eeriness), and then I looked up.
I was just dumbfounded for two minutes.
I could see a big expanse of sky right above the tall trees.
The view was like a movie screen, with trees occupying one third of the screen and the rest was filled with sky.
The sky was prussian blue in colour , with tiny misty dotted stars, misty as in, they didn't look like bright crisp dots but they had this fuzzy light around the central bright shine.
It does not stop there, there were misty looking clouds too, very very light-see-through ones, in flimsy, tiny patches all around, and then there was this brigade of bigger ones than these following them!
All these were moving not too fast and not too slow.
But I could see them move like tiny whales above me, clearing patches of misty starry sky as they moved ahead.

It is difficult to describe the "magic magic" feeling about it.
It can most definitely be seen in some anime images of the night sky.

So, perks of working late I tell you is one of these magic magic views of the star lit sky.
I will talk about the early morning magic some other time.
:-)