Seeing the future

Location:  Columbus, OH

Weather:  Clear, 54F

Ok, so this has nothing to do with Antarctica, but my life is much more than some frozen continent.

For some reason I just woke up early this morning.  I got up, made coffee, played with Nana, and went outside to look at the beautiful pre-dawn skies.  As soon as I looked up I realized that I was looking at the winter constellations.  I was always in wonder of this.  I know it's a simple notion of astrophysics, but looking at the next seasons stars has always been like looking into the future.  Seeing Orion prominently in the southern sky made me think about what might life might be like in six months when Orion will be up at 8:00pm vice 6:30am.  It's always the first glimpse into a future time to come.  It doesn't give up any of its mysteries, but it does prove the concept of the "future" and that what and who I deal with here in the present is fleeting.  

That is not such a bad thought.

Picture:  M42 - The Great Orion Nebula--I shot this last winter in Gibsonburg, OH.