THERE’S ALWAYS BEAUTY IN THE SKIES, SEEN FROM THE ROOFTOP
“Get as far away from lights as possible . . .”
Still, I so wanted to see the Northern Lights, and there were reports that the rare spectacle was visible in San Francisco. So up to the roof of my building I went, about midnight.
If you squint, you can see a smidge of green through the fog above.
Mesmerized, I stared north. Possibly I just imagined it all, but for about ten minutes, while I watched in wonder, rosy wisps or shimmers of pale green floated briefly into view just above the urban horizon. Could that be the moon (just above the two-eyed building) or are my eyes seriously playing tricks on me?
I think it mattered not. The universe was simply doing its universal thing, throwing a solar storm of a party, everyone’s invited.
We tiny specks can only watch. And be grateful.
I went to Iceland in October of 2022 on a Road Scholar long weekend in Iceland trip. It was miraculous, but the northern lights were visible every single night we were there.!! A small group from the Outer Banks in North Carolina stayed on for several more days and believe it or not they saw more northern lights. Chris and I also saw them in Alaska in the month of February. Unfortunately, when I see them, they are white. But the photos come out in beautiful green.
I vaguely remember when I was a child visiting my grandparents in West Virginia, they were visible there also. It may have been the same time you saw them in Virginia.
All part of God‘s beautiful, beautiful creation.
Anne Bellows
Yes, I think there must have been a solar storm similar to this last one maybe in the 1940s — since you & I were children simultaneously 🤭 and they might well have been visible around VA and WVA in those same days. Nice memories!
Hi. Have you ever seen a full-blown display of the Northern Lights? I haven’t, but would love to.
Oh, I WISH. I remember once as a child, must’ve been another solar storm, when the lights were visible in my central VA hometown, everyone sat in the field and stared and in my memory it was bright green, wavy and wonderful. My memory may be exaggerating, but I think that’s okay. 😊