Luke, how did you do? I expect a picture of you and your dogs peering out the window together.
I felt like a coward. When I was going to bed last night I didn't set the alarm. Then around 3:30 I woke up (must have been guilt), so i clambered out of bed and went to the front window. Man, our neighborhood is BRIGHT at 3:30 in the morning. Street lights and some neighbors have yard lights or lights on the garages. I could have given police a good description of a person who was 30 feet away. Definitely too much light to try to capture them from my yard (my only real thought). Still, I wandered to the back yard away from the street lights.
I saw a plane flying by and then a fast bright light streak through the sky. I wiped my eyes a bit and stared into the not very complete darkness. I couldn't make out any stars. I wondered if I had just hallucinated the meteor. Then I wondered if the battery in my camera had a full charge (not likely) and realized that long exposure shots definitely eat batteries. I wasn't sure where my tripod was and I still hadn't picked up a remote shutter release cable yet.
I went back to bed and struggled a bit to get back to sleep knowing there were some awesome shots if I weren't so lazy. I asked my dog Lucy to come snuggle a little closer for comfort and went back to sleep and had some fantastic meteor shower photography dreams. I had nearly forgotten about those until I was typing these.
The shot you suggest BB, is one I can picture in my stream. And one that is very much in my personal style (if I have one). Lucy and I will do one tonight called "Looking for the Perseids"......dedicated to you.