Norway's Northern Lights

So, as much as I loved my sister's photographs of the Northern Lights in Sweden, perhaps these ones are a teensie bit more WOW! Imagine creating this sort of light effect on a bedroom ceiling, or across open fields.

It's exactly as I imagined them when I read Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. Spellbinding.

Bjørn Jørgensen's sky near Tromsø 

 Bjørn Jørgensen captured the top image in the sky over Grøtfjord, North Norway.

This is what Discovery News said about the amazing skies we've been getting this year...

Jan. 23, 2012 -- Over the weekend, the Earth's magnetic field was struck by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The resulting geomagnetic storm caused a spectacular light show at higher latitudes. As the solar plasma of the CME hit our magnetosphere, the powerful global magnetic field funneled energetic particles down toward the Polar Regions. As the particles (mainly protons) impacted our atmosphere, light erupted from the collisions.

Bjørn Jørgensen

Discovery News

National Geographic

Good Clean Fun

When I grow up, please may I have these awesome tiles in my shower?!

The house I'm living in for the next few months is lovely but unfurnished. I am dreaming of living somewhere with all of my things around me and somewhere that feels 'complete', you know?

I know I'll need a mortgage to finance them but they're incredible.

The glow in the dark bath might be taking things a bit too far.

Moving Colour heat sensitive tiles in Northern Lights

Lucedentro photoluminescent ceramic mosaic bath

I'm rather shy to admit it but I don't use the upstairs bathroom in my cottage. It's a too little 

nasty with a stained green bathtub and a scraggily worn brown carpet, so I've closed it up. This bathroom would sort it out perfectly (with some warming colour) and is definitely more country than the lustworthy tiles.

On the bathroom theme, I went to Marrakesh on a shoot years ago, and am still kicking myself that I didn't haggle for a mosaic basin. That may sound odd but they were brilliantly coloured mosaic bowls with a circle knocked out of the bottom for the plug hole. I assumed that if there were so many in the Medina then I could probably find one in London. No such luck. Perhaps I could make one, how impossible could it be?!

I can't for the life of me remember where I found these images but when I do, I promise to update the post.

movingcolour.net

The Aurora

My lucky sister did an arctic biathlon for Kids Company in Sweden and saw the Northern Lights!

The aurora borealis in Sweden

kidsco.org.uk