Aurora borealis

Aurora Borealis

Checked off a bucket list item this week. It’s been a very active solar flare year, and there was a flare on Thursday that managed to cut through the light pollution so that we could actually see the aurora from our back deck. (These shots both use the nighttime feature on my pixel’s camera, but

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lilacs in an April snowstorm

Winter Notes

After one of the least snowiest winters I can remember, Mother Nature thought it would be fun to throw an April snowstorm our way. It started overnight on Wednesday, and lasted through rain showers on Friday. It was very heavy, and we were extremely lucky to only lose power for about an hour in the

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