Sunset on Lake Almanor

They say that night falls
but tonight I watched it rise
Climbing up the mountains over Lake Almanor
until the last vestiges of pink and orange
faded from the mountain top into night.

And then the stars filled the sky.

When I was young, we watched the stars, waiting for one to shoot across the sky. Now the night sky is more active. Satellites slowly orbit, like stars neither twinkling or shooting.