Dark

The last three mornings have been beautifully clear and consistently getting darker as the last of the crescent moon faded away. It was so clear all the stars are out and one can see the Milky Way. The last little fingernail of a moon is riding lower and lower in the East and bright little Venus right beside.
Really nice, but this morning the moon was gone and when I got to the trail it was really dark in there. I ran up on a large deer that was almost right in the middle of the path.