Holy shit, that's a beautiful picture of the Northern Lights.

I think having the trees there for scale and some other colors helps give a sense of it.

Things I'd love to see:

Northern Lights
St. Elmo's Fire
A lava flow
Ball lightning

Feel better, Aims and Em.

I am still doing laundry, and have added IMing with two guys on OKC, one of whom is a friend of MFJs. We're going to get dinner and see a band next week.

More Mushroom soup and healing ~ma for Aims and Em.

"I'm trying to find an antique store I heard about between here and Edmonds. I don't know its name so I can't look it up, but it has a rusty plow in the front yard."

Watch out with this one, I think every other antique store has a rusty plow in the front yard around here. The other half have cream separators.

smonster, insent.

That pic is gorgeous, Hec.

Holy shit, that's a beautiful picture of the Northern Lights.

Yes! And it's now my desktop background.

From your list, I have seen ball lightning. It was freaky as hell. I was a teenager, and my mom and I were in the kitchen doing dishes, and there was a storm coming - visible on the horizon but not upon us yet. Suddenly there was a sharp cracking sound, almost like ice breaking; we both turned and looked up, and there was a ball of fire between us and the ceiling. It dashed about halfway across the kitchen and disappeared silently. It took no more than a couple seconds; we barely had time to react before it was gone. We had no idea what it was; it wasn't until years later that I learned about ball lightning - and that some learned folk think it doesn't exist. Uh-huh.

Northern Lights

When I was at Camp Wilderness Boy Scout camp one summer, I signed up to get my Astronomy merit badge. We gathered about 11 pm every night after forcing ourselves to sleep after supper.

As we were looking at the stars, pointing out the constellations, etc., a strange glow started to suffuse the sky. At first we assumed our eyes were becoming accustomed to the near total darkness with all of the camp lights out where we were. Probably a far city. Then it started getting bigger, and ribboning, and then there were flashes of color, and it covered at least 40% of the sky.

My Astronomy instructor told us to take a good look, as we might not see something like this for fifty years.

I'm looking forward to it....

poor Aims & Em. {{{{ }}}}. Take care of yourselves.

Thanks, WS!