Sensory Overload

Today was beautiful, although extremely cold. Brien called into today to say that there were good auroras out, so I went out on the deck into quite the sky show. First off, the sun light was glowing orange out by the berms and fading slowly into a dark night sky that still houses several bright stars. Directly opposite is a full moon, which is preparing for an eclipse tonight so that was lighting up the other half of the sky. Then from end to end, directly from the glowing horizon to the moonlit sky was a long green/pink/purple stream of auroras that was so powerful and excited that it steadily flashed and weaved across the sky. Truly awesome, especially at this point when we aren't sure how many more auroras we'll get to see.
Here is one of Jason's pictures of it, although that hardly does the scence justice, especially taking into account that light has been sparce for 5 months:


And we got a great view of the eclipse after all. Here is Robert's photographic rendition. How late did you stay up to finish that one? Turned out awesome!