Um, well it was cloudy when we went to bed but I got up at 3:00 and it was clear so I roused the family. The moon sure took things down a notch or two but we stood on the east side of the house in its shadow and that helped. They didn't seem to fall as frequently as last year but still outstanding for any shower. Sometimes two at once. Sometimes three. And those ones that come straight at you. Weird. A star appears. Then fades. Should I duck? There was a great many of them as firey streaks. There too many to count but I wonder how many more would have been seen without the moon there. Later I was up at the road at 6:30. Up here it was pretty much daylight and I happened to look to the west and saw one, a bright one, fall from about 30 degrees up all the way to the horizon. How bright that might have been at night! After two great Leonid showers in a row I think we will be jaded with normal meteor showers for awhile. And it seems it will be many decades before we have such a thing again.

Rex