Northern Lights

OK I didn´t take these pictures but they are from Iceland and we saw the most beautiful Northern Lights Wednesday night very similar to these pictures. A member called us about 10:30 PM and said "I am sorry to call this late but the Northern Lights are beautiful." We quickly wrapped up and went outside. At first they seemed like those we have seen before and Eileen started back into the house when I said, "look!" She turned around and saw the beautiful beginning of a spectacular light show. We decided to go outside town so at not to have the city lights interfering. From there we could see the Northern Lights stretched across the sky from the eastern horizon to the western horizon. Most of the time it was basically a long band of greenish light that was very fluid and varied in intensity similar to the first two pictures. Then there would be areas that would begin to modulate up and down and as they did so change color intensity and colors. After viewing this show for sometime we headed back into town and right in front of us was this spectacular movement of lights changing from light green to yellow to pink and then purple. We had to stop and continue to watch the show. Finally we headed home and just as we came around the corner to our house we saw this huge ball of green that suddenly began to change colors in stripes across the ball much like the colorful picture above. Yesterday we mentioned to another member about the ball we saw and she said, "OH yes that was beautiful. I was driving and it just showed up in front of me and OH Wow!" I called the friend who called us and told him that was the most spectacular Northern Lights we had seen and a great finale to our mission in Iceland.