Skywatch Friday which is hosted by Tom Wigley on his blog Wiggers World
Northern Light…not “lights” – I would LOVE to get a photo worthy of posting of the Aurora Borealis, which I have seen only once…but this post is about Northern Light which at my latitude of 48 North means sunrise at 5:50 and sunset at 9:11 and another month to go until the Summer Equinox so sunrise is ever earlier and sunset ever later until at the equinox there is light in the sky as late as 11 p.m. and as early as 4 a.m. … really, we have no need for Daylight Saving Time here – enough of the daylight already!!!
**added Note on 5/17 Northern Lights are the Aurora Borealis…I am using “Northern Light” to refer to the extended daylight we have in the north during the summer… sorry for any misunderstanding, I probably shouldn’t have capitalized it either…
But, yesterday morning very early and me, too impatient to get a tripod, but looking at a beautiful dawn about to happen, well, see for yourself…
And much later yesterday – 8:45 p.m. U.S. Mountain Daylight time – the setting sun with no clouds to block its rays, shines on the top of the trees casting them in gold…
And a bit of follow up… Mental Pause Mama and my friend Kris identified the bird in the Pond Post as a Yellow Headed Blackbird. See the original post for more….
Wonderful pictures. Really 100 % shots !!
Nice weekendt wishes to you, comes here from Norway.
Love the sky through the trees – beautiful!!
Big Sky Country. I thought you had to post for today and scrolled way down, way, way, down, and saw this series of photographs and assumed these are those for Sky Watch Friday. All nice photos.
Fantastic set of photos … it would be a perfect postcard collection!
What a great series of pictures you show… I liked each and everyone.. the golden tree tops lookeds radiant in that light.. thank you for sharing these.
Gorgeous set of photos!!
Fantastic pictures. I especially like the ones with the sun tinting the tree tops – beautiful golden / flame.
Thank you for posting.
Gary
As beautiful as always…thanks for the props!
Beautiful series of photos!
I love the gold light of the setting sun. Great series of photos. Nice to show the transistion from sunrise to sunset!
Ann, this is a wonderful series of shots. I really enjoyed them.
Beautiful photos. Looks like what I see through my conifers. I never thought about taking the whole series. Love the sun on the tips. MB
Beyond words! Awesome photos!
What a lovely series! I loved the gold tipped trees especially!
glad you were up so early to catch all this beauty! Thanks. I have never seen the aurora, as we live at 34 degrees south, but have always wanted to go to either the arctic or antarctic circle to see it.
That was fun – watching the sunrise with you and seeing the gilded trees at sunset. I love it! Very pretty.
Your pictures were lovely. Found you at Wiggers World.
Wow,those are awesome,love it!
A lot of great shot in your SWF post! Great!
Petunia’s SWF
Fantastic set of photos!
I love the sky at sunrise. So very peaceful. Nice set of photos!
Beautiful pictures. I like the way the setting sun touches the tops of the trees before going away!
Wow….these are awesome shots and I love the gold tipped trees as well….hmmmm Northern Light as opposed to LightS..I will admit to always referring to them as “lights” but I will stop that immediately! (It is like adding the “S” to Illinois and it is SILENT…..)
Ok…so on rereading– I guess I should have figured out what the Northern Light reference was to! That’ll teach me to not read too quickly! Thanks for clarifying it for me!