Sunday night - as a group of us were leaving the 16th century we walked out the gates and ...

filling the northern skies - the Aurora Borealis! Fascinating - very clear - quite active. Ive seen them before - but never so clear and covering such a portion of the sky. It was absolutely fascinating.

One of the group grew up in Cananda - and he was marveling - because he had never seen the 'lights' so far south (though we were really only 25 miles or so south of toronto - which I think he forgets.