There was a time when we looked up not back

We had clouds for a good part of the night last night and finally with some high winds and stuff the heavens came out.  Venus, Mars and Saturn are in the last night of their "clump" and I watched with fascination of sorts for the hour or two that it took me to re-fall asleep.

I wish I could see Neptune.  I had a book when I was a kid called "the secret of the ninth planet" (well the book jacked didn't have caps on it so I'm being authentic). It was all imaginary as the USSR hadn't even launched Sputnik at that point.  Holst had written his "Planets" 40 years before and had painted my picture in my minds eye. Such beauty lies in objects not yet seen.