midday
I do n't remember what a high sky looks like . Three years ago I think I saw Venus . Or it may have been Sirius or Jupiter . The hot smoky light was turning from the amber of midday to the bloody bronze of evening . The line of towers I was following showed the faintest spread in the direction of their canting -- they must have been only a few miles from blast center . As I passed each one I could see where the metal on the blast side had been eroded -- vaporized by the original blast , mostly smoothly , but with welts and pustules where the metal had merely melted and run . I supposed the lines the towers carried had all been vaporized too , but with the haze I could n't be sure , though I did see three dark blobs up there that might be vultures perching .