Saturday, October 12, 2024

I finally saw the Northern Lights

My bucket list is officially empty: seeing the Northern Lights was the only thing I ever had on it.


Mind you, since I saw them in Toronto over a haze of city lighting, they weren't as spectacular as you could get somewhere quieter. I couldn't hear the crackling that goes with, I couldn't see this much without the camera on my phone, and the photograph shows more than what I caught with my eyes. Still, super exciting. I was so lucky I had enough charge on my phone to grab this much of a chance!

I will totally try again, because I really want to hear that crackly sound in person. They're projected to be pretty visible pretty often for the next few years so fingers crossed it works out.

By day, I've been focusing on being outside in gorgeous autumn weather. I saw this on a ravine walk...


And this in the cemetery...


And as always, I can't help thinking these colour combos would be fantastic in a sweater. I'm not sure I've ever seen that shade of blue sky reproduced in yarn though, have you? You get such a glow from the sun.

I also restained some worn spots on our deck, so fingers crossed the wood'll hold up another year! No pictures of that, because nobody wants to watch paint dry, especially when it's white.

Oh! as a substitute for drying paint, you might enjoy these seventy-year-old Agatha Christie covers I posted and captioned on my Instagram feed yesterday:


It must've been a blast to be a commercial artist when everything was advertising, don't you think?

As to knitting, I'm getting A Little Concerned. The socks I'm delivering in a month are over the heel flap but not much farther, and at my current snail pace I am not gonna make it. I am going to have to build in more knitting time, which is awkward, because I've also had to pick up my writing time. Oh well - I'll figure it out!

Hope you have a great weekend figured out - thanks for dropping by and I look forward to seeing you next Saturday. Till then, another trio of Northern Lights pictures, looking north from a sandy spot on Toronto's port lands at the shore of Lake Ontario.






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