I was just standing in my street watching the Northern Lights dancing over Detroit! It was SO amazing...lights of green, white and red flowing all over the night sky!

applekisses said:

Pictures!!

What's this got to do with sex?

Ok now I am jealous!

DeactivatedMUSE said:

Of sex?

I am so jealous. It is one of nature's finest.

And my wish to see one..

Byron said:

I don't have a digi cam BUT...I'll google up some and we can pretend

applekisses said:

Buy one!! We'll wait!!

no, hans-i do not believe miss applekisses smokes.

no, not even if the heater is left on.

Here's what it looks like, but it's more faint because of the city lights...

applekisses said:

Too beautiful...

Byron said:

What's the matter?

and it IS so beautiful...here's another pic that sort of represents what we've got going on here:



I wish Azure was online right now...I'd like to let her know it's going on...I'm sure you can see them really good from her house.

applekisses said:

Nothing's wrong...at all. Just seeing that type of beauty in nature effects me...it makes me wish I was there, observing it directly, sitting in silence, surrounded by it all.

I just text messaged Azure, and told her to go out and look at the lights..lol

Byron said:

YAY! Thank you
I wish you were here too...seeing it in person. It's almost a little frightening...that type of power that nature has.,.I'm really awestruck. I'm sure it'll be going on all night...I'm going to have to go out again after I warm up

althom said:

You don't even follow Queensbury rules of conduct!

Be gone!

no, hans-i do not believe someone swallowed a glo stick.

beautiful pictures, miss applekisses.

asylum said:

<-- for hans

Thanks, doctor...I wish I could have taken some of what's happening outside right now...I don't have a digicam and the light polution is sorta bad.

applekisses said:

hans-stop licking the screen!!!! he is quite hyper it seems.

your memories are the database of all beauty, miss applekisses.

remember to access them often.

Night skies are typically aglow with twinkling stars and planets and the occasional streak of a meteor or the tail of a comet, but in the northern and southern reaches of this planet, a different celestial experience is commonplace.

The auroras -- borealis and australis -- are known more familiarly as the northern and southern lights, and they have captured the imagination of the earth-bound since time immemorial. Caused by particles in a solar wind interacting with Earth's magnetic field, they are shimmering sheets of light that capture the imagination and send it darting along paths of magic and wonder.

Medieval Europe saw the lights as heavenly warriors, or in some cases omens of death, illness or war. In the northernmost lands of Scandinavia where their showing is most spectacular, the lights were viewed with awe and respect.

From humble beginnings -- a faint glow on the horizon -- the auroras become phosphorescent, dramatic, drapery-like lights arcing over the night sky. The southern and northern light shows are connected by the earth's magnetic fields, and their displays are symmetrical. The fame is less evenly divided, however -- only the northern portion is designated a wonder of the natural world.

www.cnn.com/.../9711/ natural.wonders/lights.html
[Edited 11/7/04 20:50pm]

Ok...these are from Michigan...looks like what I see

althom said:

what do YOU have to do with sex???



(ps - pretty pictures, apples! wish i was there to see!)

Anxiety said:

You know...I was just about to ask the same thing!

applekisses said:

i believe that is the function of the apparatus on mr. althom's head.

is it not?

Anxiety said:

Me too! It's so awesome!

Ok...I'm gonna go outside again and take another look...I'll be be back with an update!

My brother just told me that you can see them all over the
world..

I went outside to see, but I am right in the city..

sag10 said:

We don't get them on this side of the world.

althom said:

I wish we did

Natisse2 said:

I could light my fart and we could pretend!