Aurora Borealis

Since we've moved up here, there are periodic 'this weekend the northern lights will be visible' articles and general excitement.  The first couple had me staying up late and going out into the cold, with nothing to show for it. So, in May when all the hype came out, I went to bed.  Sadly, when I woke the next morning, everyone I knew had beautiful pictures of the sky!  I was so sad. = (

Despite the potential for more later in the weekend, there were no more colorful skies.

Fast forward to early October, the warnings came out that the lights would appear right after sunset.  I was excited that the time frame was before my bedtime and went out to look.  I was greeted with darkness, but my phone captured some beautiful colors.

One of my facebook friends is more attuned to the meteorological world, and posted that another 'flare' was coming, so I went back out and could see pink without my phone!!!

With my phone, it was absolutely gorgeous!  

It was beautiful to behold, and I'm super excited to mark it off of my bucket list!

later days

edit 10-26-24: backdated for continuity. 

Aurora Borealis

I'm going to start this post the night before.  It was a typical Friday night, there were news articles saying to look at the skies for the aurora borealis, before the clouds moved in.  We'd gotten this enough times that I was not overly excited and went to bed at normal time.  

When I woke up, I had all the envy, because my friends had gotten amazing shots!  I was not alone, since someone made this meme.

Okay, now onto the next day, Saturday.  Billy and I prepared to head to Dimes, and Grace wanted to come along.  Despite warning that she would be bored, and we were going to be there over an hour, she still wanted to come.  Well, we were there even longer than expected, because we ran into Kim and Mark (apparently this happenstance kind of meeting at the Dimes was on Billy's bucket list = )) so we ended up staying even longer.  

But Grace could not have been better behaved.  She entertained herself with things she brought in a bag, and later my phone with some pictures.  She was trying to capture the aurora borealis, since we were supposed to have another chance of seeing it.

She thought she might have seen it, but I think it might have been wishful thinking.

Once we got home, I tried to take pictures and capture my own, but only ended up with some really cool shots of the big dipper.

This last one might have traces of it, but we for sure missed out on the impressive night (as a whole family! Apparently Emily was outside with her friends at a sleepover and they didn't know to take pictures, so they missed it too! = ( )

 Next time I'll heed the warnings and stay up; hopefully I can check it off my bucket list!

later days

edit 5-25-24: backdated for continuity