Orion: A Winter Pile of Blood and Muscle

This time of year Orion looms over the trees outside my kitchen window in the evening. If red Betelgeuse doesn’t give him away, his famous belt does. Those three equidistant-appearing stars stand apart from the splatter of shining ones in the dark pelt of the heavens. Orion is probably the most well-known constellation outside of the Big Dipper among th…