WOW - preview of things to come?

Yesterday another group arrived hoping, of course, to see the lights. As self-styled experts we gave them all kinds of solicited and unsolicited advise emphasizing that you can't trust the weather (cloud) forecast and that things can happen - fast - at any time. Sure enough! Sometime after 8 a moderate display began which on your first night is always amazing. THEN, Bang! For about 30 or 45 seconds a patch of lights above us went bonkers! Moving fast, every which way, reds and greens and in the confusion and awe you could imagine other colors. But our camera was on a 20 second exposure and by the time I could reset it things had gone back to normal. Drat and other expletives. But just seeing it was fantastic and what with the coronal hole on the sun their is a chance we will be experiencing the same and better Saturday night. There were a few clouds around last night so some of the pics I got (haven't downloaded them from the camera but will soon and will update this post or put them in the next) showed the lights with "texture". So, in anticipation, I leave you with our ever vigilant vagabond volunteers viewing the vistas for vivacious vacillations...

Andrew and Lesya on their snowpile viewing station