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My friend in Alaska sent an email with a link to some of the most fabulous northern light pictures.
He said he has been sitting out the past few nights watching them, with the temps at 0*

here's the link.
http://www.ktuu.com/features/photo-gall ... otogallery

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OMGosh - how beautiful! I hope I get to see them, but not at zero degrees!

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Thanks for sharing Lenora. We you able to see the Aurora Borealis when you lived in AK? They sure are beautiful.

Linda

Would love to see that in person. Thanks for sharing!

We will be there when it is daylight 24/7 so doubt we will see them..but I agree it would be great.

Rufflesgurl wrote:Thanks for sharing Lenora. We you able to see the Aurora Borealis when you lived in AK? They sure are beautiful.

Linda

Yes, i was privileged to see them many times, but this winter they are especially spectacular.

Gentleladybear wrote:We will be there when it is daylight 24/7...

However will I get my beauty sleep?

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mitch5252 wrote:

Gentleladybear wrote:We will be there when it is daylight 24/7...

However will I get my beauty sleep?

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people don't sleep in the Alaskan summers. They did that for 9 months straight waiting for it to get there!

mitch5252 wrote:

Gentleladybear wrote:We will be there when it is daylight 24/7...

However will I get my beauty sleep?

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Beautiful!

I remember seeing them at our cottage in Michigan at the top of the "Thumb" overlooking Lake Huron so many times when I was a kid. Then a lot of people got yard lights and it was a lot harder, but I remember one night on the way home through farm country, my son and I stopped the car in the middle of a dark road and saw orange, red, green, and purple all over the sky. Wonderful!

wow thanks for posting this for us Lenora
so very pretty...remember seeing the Northern lights once in Jackson WY
really pretty actually totally amazing thanks again
sheila

mitch5252 wrote:

Gentleladybear wrote:We will be there when it is daylight 24/7...

However will I get my beauty sleep?

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I would have thought you'd gave up by now. Just sayin'...

I used to see them occasionally when I would go "up north" to northern MN with my mom. I remember one night stopping alongside the road to just watch for awhile. Saw them once while out in my boat on the lake I grew up on just west of Minneapolis. It gets so dark on the lake at night so you can see everything (stars, moon, etc.) so brightly.

I can only imagine how much brighter and more intense they are up in Alaska tho!

I did see them for a week one March when I took my husband to Alaska. The trip was planned for him to see the lights because he had always wanted to see them. It was fabulous. But I had the privilege of living in Iceland for 2 years where they are a nightly occurrence also (just like Alaska but on the Atlantic side) and it was always exciting to me. In fact I was once given extra duty because I was caught staring at the sky instead of walking my post. No problem, the extra duty was a post at an outlying building where no one came around in the middle of December for 4 hours. I had an uninterrupted view with no one to see me stare. Best punishment in my whole life!

Do you carry a blindfold? If you don't your beauty may suffer and no northern lights either.