Looking out my back door.

I know, it's a cheap rip-off of that Creedence song, but that's what the photo is, so give me a break.

On my drive home from the gym, I listen to Kids Corner, the local public radio show that is supposed to be for kids (hence the name) but I find it kind of relaxing, and the music they play is a welcomed change from the adult-oriented-rock (the so-called AOR) that gets played on so-called adult radio.

Kathy O'Connell (the host) had Derrick Pitts from the Franklin Institute's Fels Planetarium on the show, talking about the evening sky and which constellations we would see if we looked outside during the spring, which I hear is coming soon. They call it "Deep Space, with our Sky Guy Derrick Pitts". It's a kids show.

He also told us that on a normal evening, approximately 10 objects enter the Earth's atmosphere and flash across the sky like meteors. If we look up, at any given moment, we have a pretty good chance of seeing something streaking across the sky.

I took the camera and the wide-angle lens out on the wood deck and pointed it at Orion, my favorite constellation. What, you don't have a favorite constellation?

Sure enough, something streaked across the sky. I'm guessing it's a meteor or a particle of some satellite that I was lucky enough to catch with the camera. It couldn't be that I'm in the flight path of Philadelphia International Airport and it's merely a passing jet. No, that's not it at all. It's a meteor streaking across the sky, luckily burning up in the atmosphere before it reached the ground. (Click on the picture and it will expand)

Meanwhile, the cat has me worried.

Lately, he's been sitting in the kitchen staring at the stove as though there was a small animal in there - or a meteor. Whatever, it's creeping me out. I go looking for him, and there he is sitting in the kitchen staring at the floor in front of the stove. Don't believe me? Here's a photo to prove it. Just like the meteor, it's inexplicable.

Weird right? I thought so too.