Lucky day… Originally uploaded by David Ascher.

Poking around flickr’s hot tags, I noticed that “auroraborealis” and “northernlights” were hot tags in the last 24hrs. It looks from the pictures corresponding to those tags are from Alaska, which is nice for them. I’m frustrated that I’ve been “north” for six years and have yet to see them....

Note to people far from here: Please send sunny thoughts. We’ve had one of the wettest Novembers on record so far, there are landslides everywhere, including some into our reservoirs, causing a boil-water advisory. Upside: we had a nice time sledding & making snow forts last weekend.