Ryan woke me up this morning to look at the northern lights–I didn’t even mind it was 3:30 a.m. I’ve been looking forward to seeing the northern lights again. A look out the north window revealed a band of white moving across the sky. To get a better look, I bundled up, headed outside and up the ladder on to our trailer’s roof. At tree top level, I had an excellent view of the northern lights moving across the night sky. The lights went from a band to a wavy curtain across the sky several times. When the lights faded in one part of the sky, they began in another. The whitish-green lights almost look like a cloud bank at times.
I only stayed out for a half hour, since it was windy. I enjoyed the time on the roof immensely. I haven’t seen the northern lights for a few years. And I hadn’t seen the stars for months and enjoyed finding the constellations again. I think I even saw Venus and Mars.
The sky wasn’t completely dark at 4 a.m.. A faint amount of twilight silhouetted the trees and mountains to the north. We are losing seven and a half minutes of daylight a day, so the nights are quickly becoming longer. With the shorter days, I am enjoying the sunrises and sunsets again without having to lose any sleep–except for watching the northern lights.
