"This snowy pre-dawn scene is just outside of Kneeland, Humboldt County, CA. at 05:00 on February 21, 2018.At 03:30 I looked at my clock and felt so tired. But a voice said to me from inside, ""If you don't go out, you won't bring anything back.""""But sometimes a body needs sleep!""""Well, if you don't go out, you won't bring anything back.""""You always say that,"" I said. But I got up.I'd been to that spot and taken a few photos while photographing the Geminid Meteors with my son last December 13, 2017. The single silhouette is me, and then the double is both of us. Since I'd been here back in December, I knew the spot, the rise in the land as the road rounds that curve, and which way it was facing.I use an app called Sky Guide to tell me where in the sky celestial things will be, and when. I can look to see what will be visible tonight, next year, or last year, at any time of the day. Using that app, I knew that the Galactic Core of the Milky Way — the part with the greatest detail, contrast and color — would be rising low over the eastern horizon this time of year starting after 03:00. (Where it is at what time is different throughout the year).Thank goodness I'd been there in December, because from that I knew it was going to be the perfect spot to see the Milky Way before dawn began brightening the east. From what the app said, it looked like the Milky Way was going to be rising at a low angle above the horizon close above the horizon in the wee hours, and my memory of the spot put it right above the road where it makes that turn. My weather site said the sky cover would be less than 40% that morning, and that there'd be a little snow that night to add to what remained from the previous days. When I got there it was perfect, one of those beautiful gifts that keep coming my way. You can see that night's snowfall as a thin layer on the road."
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