Ducknik's Birthday Breakfast

...was a piece of cold pepperoni pizza eaten on a rock down by Swiftcurrent Lake, staring out at crystal clear water, mergansers swimming, ptarmigans fluttering, glaciers melting, soft ripples breaking the surface as fish jumped to catch low flying insects. We bought the pizza yesterday and protected it from bears with a sign.

Late last night the two travelers drove a mile down the road, parked the Rented Subaru by the side of the road, opened the sun roof, stuck their heads up and pointed their eyes towards Perseus, just a few inches to the right of the Big Dipper. Immediately they were rewarded: a huge shooting star flashed across the low sky in front of them, right to left, glowing yellow as it was consumed by Earth's atmosphere. During the next hour and a half the full Perseids meteor shower whooshed above them, as they used the Star App on the IPad to identify that bright star (Saturn) and that constellation (Cassiopiea) and that red and blue fast moving flash(weather satellite).