It's early morning in Seattle as I step over to the open French door and look out to the south. The night air is cool atop the hill in Queen Anne.
The red lights of the three tall transmission towers, placed up here to extend their broadcast reach across the area, blink against the dark sky.
Embedded in the blackness beyond are the stars of the constellation Orion. One of these, the 'star' in the center of Orion's Belt, is actually a nebula, a stellar nursery containing about 700 young stars. Farther east, and much closer to the horizon, Sirius twinkles.
I know fall is coming when Sirius and Orion appear in the pre-dawn sky.
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