N o r t h e r n L i g h t s ☆ They're something to behold. For as long as I can remember every winter the aurora makes a show stopping appearance. Everyone says you have to be a night-owl to see them. Not true. I have seen them in the daylight. I kid you not, it was late afternoon and my friend knocked on the door, asking me to make sure he wasn't loosing his mind. They were out alright, and it was late summer in the daylight. You could see the waves of colors spooning around the sky just as vibrantly as a decent night viewing. It was nuts, really didn't seem to make sense, but in all reality science most likely has it that the sun's reflection on the gases magnified intensely at that hour, making the lights visible in the daytime. To be blatant they are technically always there; just at the right atmospheric conditions we are able to see them. I cannot tell you how rare the odds are of such a display, but I have seen much more intense Northern Lights duri
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Alaska is home to all kinds of bad-assery. I can't even begin to tell you how incredibly lucky I am to have been born and raised here. Not to say I'm necessarily bad ass or anything, but just looking out the window into my backyard gives me a sense of wonderment. Being raised in the Matanuska Susitna Valley, tucked between massive mountains, means frequent adventures. I used to take this for granted, but visiting various areas around the world from a young age helped shape my gratuitous point of view.