We saw the same show only from our closest opportunity: Door County's Northern Tip. We always have a 2 1/2 hour drive one way just to get an opportunity to view the beauty. We live for opportunities to get to the Apostle Islands to shoot them and hoping that our week up there this fall pays off big time. Our trip up there is at least 3 1/2 hours one way so we can't just hop in the car and get there in time. Last time we got up to the Door we there just in time for the shy to open and rain the Northern Lights. Truly magical! I know were pretty good photographers....but I would trade you any day for your way with words!!!
No doubt it was a magical night, Jeff--the kind that you reluctantly leave behind when you finally decide it is time to return home. We all struggle with our degree of self-importance in the world; after seeing the Northern Lights for the first time, though, I felt incredible small, almost nonexistent, as my sense of scale, wonder, and place was rocked by those streaming particles from the universe.
Funny, as a child of the U.P. I don’t view them with awe. I view them as I do the lilacs, snow, pines, rocks …a piece of me & of my wonderful life best viewed in the wild, not through a camera sensor….something to stumble upon & be grateful for.
We saw the same show only from our closest opportunity: Door County's Northern Tip. We always have a 2 1/2 hour drive one way just to get an opportunity to view the beauty. We live for opportunities to get to the Apostle Islands to shoot them and hoping that our week up there this fall pays off big time. Our trip up there is at least 3 1/2 hours one way so we can't just hop in the car and get there in time. Last time we got up to the Door we there just in time for the shy to open and rain the Northern Lights. Truly magical! I know were pretty good photographers....but I would trade you any day for your way with words!!!
No doubt it was a magical night, Jeff--the kind that you reluctantly leave behind when you finally decide it is time to return home. We all struggle with our degree of self-importance in the world; after seeing the Northern Lights for the first time, though, I felt incredible small, almost nonexistent, as my sense of scale, wonder, and place was rocked by those streaming particles from the universe.
Funny, as a child of the U.P. I don’t view them with awe. I view them as I do the lilacs, snow, pines, rocks …a piece of me & of my wonderful life best viewed in the wild, not through a camera sensor….something to stumble upon & be grateful for.