It just doesn't get dark like it used to.

Growing up in a rural area, I remember a blanket of stars and if it was an overcast night it would be so dark that you could barely see to walk. Living now in suburbs, only a handful of objects sign in the night skies and half of those are aircraft or satellites. And even on a cloudy night it's still light enough to see pretty well.

Even going back to my rural childhood home the light pollution has really blotted out a lot stars and brightened the night. Seems the whole of the east coast in the US is under a perpetual blanket of purplish gray lighting smog.

Sometimes I really miss the black night used to hold, and the beautiful cast of brilliant points that contrasted against the near pitch dark.