Meteors

I woke at 4am this morning and looked out of the bedroom window.  There were a few whisps of cloud against the clear sky.  I recognized Alpha and Beta Arietis high up in the south.  A bright meteor (magnitude 1 or 2) streaked vertically down through Pegasus and Aquarius, followed by a fainter one a few seconds later.  Then I remembered: it was August the 13th, Perseids maximum, and my mother's birthday.  She would have been 74.