Silhouettes in Yellow & Blue - Wilderness Fire Lookout Tower

[Bo Zarts]

Idaho Panhandle National Forests
August 2023
© 2023 Bo Zarts Studio

[Walleye]

1. Remind me of a Neil Young song, something like blue blue windows behind the stars

Great photo!

[George McGovern]

3. "Helpless"

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[Walleye]

4. That's it, beautiful song, thanks for the image, too

[Deuxcents]

2. Many, many years ago, I went to Ketchum, Idaho

The sky at night looked just like your photo. The stars were so close it seemed I could just pick one out of the sky. The whole sky was like sparkling diamonds as they twinkled in the blackness. I’ll never forget how beautiful that sky was.

[NNadir]

5. I always admire your art.

[Rural_Progressive]

6. Fun factoid

well maybe not fun, more like sad actually.

Fewer than 20% of the people currently alive on the planet have seen the Milky Way.

I grew up on a farm in what was rural north east Ohio so I just took what I saw every night, when it wasn't cloudy or a full moon, for granted. Then I spent 25 years living urban after marrying a woman whose nursing specialty was not available in rural hospitals. She retired, we moved back to rural America, in fact just a bit west of where that picture was taken, in north central Washington.

Now I get to see the glories of the cosmos whenever I want but I never take it for granted anymore.

[Bo Zarts]

7. Milky Way from an Idaho Wilderness Peak (August 2023)

©2023 Bo Zarts studio

[2naSalit]

8. That is sad.

I am truly blessed that I am able to live where I can see it any night of the week if there aren't clouds in the way. The most memorable viewing I think I've ever had was eight or nine years ago where I was watching a lunar eclipse with some friends. We were up at a fire lookout in the middle of a lake and when the eclipse was in the dark period we could see the Milky Way clearly reflected on the lake, it was magical.

[2naSalit]

9. Awesome!

And you just know that some of them are moving around up there.