Every night when I come home, there is a moment where I come over a big hill on the highway and laid out in front of me is the city of Frederick, with farms in the distance and mountains behind it. This is Maryland, so the mountains are more like very big hills, but it is very pretty and it is home. One of these days I’ll have to stop at the scenic overlook there and take a photo to share.
But last night, just before I crested the hill, the sky lit up, flashed purple and then bright green. It was very cool looking. Setting aside the most logical explanation for a moment – fireworks at a Keys game – I wondered, what could that be? We weren’t having thunderstorms. That leaves:
1. Magic. Harry Potter is real and we are all muggles, or perhaps Buffy the vampire slayer/Willow-style magic! Wouldn’t that be awesome? Not being a muggle, but if magic existed.
2. Aliens. Also an excellent option. I would love to see a UFO. Provided they weren't evil alien overlord types who just want to enslave or kill us, of course.
3. “Philadelphia Experiment” type incident at Fort Detrick. As my husband mentioned in a highly theoretical and somewhat confusing discussion we had the other night, we could be living in a different dimension as we speak and not even know it.
But it was probably just fireworks.
Oh, it was totally the magic one!