Just a beautiful picture - northern lights …I love where I live

[Calvin45]

My sister took this photo out in her yard last night, the Northern lights out in a beautiful display. I'm sad I didn't make it out of town to see them in their true glory. This sort of thing always makes be be silent and feel a sense of wonder…the house used to be my dads (built when I was in grade 6) and I'm happy her family bought the place now and is keeping it in the family - the quarter of land it's on has been the homebase for our family on my dads side since his grandfather escaped Stalin's Russia and started out with absolutley nothing in this world but the opportunity to start over and build his own life as a Saskatchewan grain farmer in a free country (the man died dirt poor after a life of backbreaking labour…but he died free )

Anyway enough rambling, look at this!

 

[Muddyboots]

@Calvin45 - Your heritage makes us all proud!

 

[Justice1327]

Simply AWESOME

 

[Varmint Hunter]

Very cool !

 

[Plinker147]

Love to see that in person some day, very cool

 

[akdad]

Lights have been awesome this year!! That's a nice picture not easy to get a good one. I tried a few weeks ago and failed and gave up

 

[comfisherman]

Been a bomber light year, probably 04 or 05 since I saw one this active.

 

[Calvin45]

Lights have been awesome this year!! That's a nice picture not easy to get a good one. I tried a few weeks ago and failed and gave upView attachment 450367

It's so hard to get a picture that does any justice. I've tried and give up. But she seems to have a knack for it

 

[akdad]

I just posted that picture to show how good yours was I've given up trying but every time they are good I try again and fail

 

[LRNut]

Ms LRNut is in Iceland and she sent me a pic on Monday of the Northern Lights. I used to see them quite a bit when I lived in AK.

 

[sp6x6]

We had that a week or so ago here too. Sadly as I missed it and only saw pictures in local paper

 

[LanceK]

I only have one thing on my bucket list, to see the northern lights. Hopefully when I head that direction, it will be another good year. Great pictures!

 

[WeiserBucks]

We saw a bit of it in SW Idaho last night, first time ever for me. My son also saw it in North Dakota.

 

[LkeAF]

We saw a bit of it in SW Idaho last night, first time ever for me. My son also saw it in North Dakota.

If you don't have clouds, take a look again tonight.

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