A Starry Night, Assateague
I was restless and couldn't sleep at 3 a.m., so crawled out of the tent and went for a walk.
All the stars were out. I don't know many constellations, really just Orion and the Big Dipper. And I know the two stars in the Big Dipper that point to the North Star.
Assateague is far enough from Ocean City, Md., that you don't get light pollution. There are fewer and fewer places like this in the East, where so much land has been overrun by developers and civilization.
But then in the distance a car alarm blared. And blared. I went back to bed.