Glaring Omission

I've been hanging my head in shame, trying to ignore my recent glaring omission, that of spectacular aurora borealis photos like everyone else has posted, but my Catholic upbringing won't let me stay quiet. I feel as if I have to make a confession - I didn't get out there for the big day! I'm ashamed that I've become so jaded, and am embarrassed to admit it. So, in order to be done with all the self-flagellation I've been indulging in this month, I thought I'd come clean and hopefully, move on. 

There have been countless times since living in Maine that we've been alerted to the possibility of seeing the Northern lights, and many's the time we've believed it and made an effort to be in the right place at the right time. It's ALWAYS been fruitless, so we didn't pay much attention when the alerts came our way this time around. We thought we knew better from past experience ... but how wrong we were this time!

We missed out on something spectacular! Many local people merely stepped outside their homes to see shafts of colored light in the sky, which we didn't even do! After seeing we'd missed out, we made an effort to get out over the following two nights in the hopes of redeeming ourselves, but it was really too late. We drove to a nearby overlook and sat watching and waiting, taking pictures frequently to see if our cameras might pick up on the phenomenon that we weren't sure we were seeing. I captured this at 12:30am, the best of the bunch, but it didn't look this great with the naked eye, so I don't know if this really 'counts' as having seen the Northern lights. 

The moral of this story - always seize the opportunities that are presented, whether you have been successful in the past or not. Regret is a terrible thing!