Aurora Borealis above a music festival
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Thorold, 2002.09.07
Today I saw something really unexpected. It was the Aurora Borealis, in vast shimmering swaths of colour and light. What made it unexpected, after having come from 13 months north of the 49th parallel just last week, was that it was in about the southernmost part of the country; the Niagara peninsula! We were at the fourth annual "Blues in the Park" Festival in 'rural' Niagara Falls, and I was having a wander through the croud when I looked up and saw some strange lines in the sky. I realized what it was, and hurried over to the edge of the park to have a better look. It was really, really beautiful. I now know that the few occasions when I thought I was seeing them in the past were probably real.