The northern lights are out tonight and dancing up a storm. This is the first night I've seen them this season. It means winter is just around the corner. We could get snow any day, any week. I brought my plants in from the porch as it seemed just too crispy out there when I got home from the Celtic Jam. It's a good thing I did.
I wasn't ready for winter. Fall isn't long in the Interior. The trees turn golden and WHAM, the winds blows off the leaves and the snow falls. It can happen in a matter of several weeks. Then it's winter. Sometimes the leaves don't even have a chance to fall. But the lights make up for a lot.
The lights tonight are white, with some red tinges. They look like clouds gone mad, shooting all over the place, huge skyfulls appearing out of nowhere and spearing each other, or curling into spirals then fading out, recoalescing into more snakes, whorls, fences. It all happens in the blink of an eye. They will do this for up to an hour. And then they'll "rest" for twenty minutes, a half hour, an hour, and the whole show begins again, but different. It's always different and I never get tired of watching it. Just too cold!
Come November 30 degrees will seem tropical, but for now if summer has to end, at least we have the sun's treats to glow at us at night.
