A bright start to 2017.

Kissed my wife at the stroke of midnight, walked out into the living room to watch the tradition of illegal fireworks over the Anchorage bowl and instead found a nice light show in the sky!  Not as strong as the night before, but I'll take it.  Here's hoping each of you has a wonderful 2017 filled with love, laughter, adventure, family, and friends.  I'm going to keep taking pictures.  Click for full-screen.

One last hurrah. Goodbye 2016.

2016 decided to put on one last really nice aurora display around 4 am this morning.  It lasted about an hour and a half.  Really active display.  None of the patterns lasted very long, but it sure was a fun one to shoot.  Here's wishing everyone a wonderful 2017.

Ice, Ice, Baby ;)

It's been a couple of years since we've tried making ice-globes for Christmas.  This year was a bit too warm, so they weren't as frozen as we thought and a couple broke when we moved them.  Devany is going to fill the broken shells with colored water and see how they look.   I love how the food coloring is compressed into a globe within a globe as the water balloons freeze solid.  The depth of the bubbles is fascinating.  A fun winter project.