It's me checking in again, this time from South L.A.
Good to see you plugging away, Steve. Lots of great ideas being created here, and some pretty darned good stories too.
Hey, that Milky Way pic is great, and the Mackanac Island Bridge aint' bad, either.
You reminded me of something from the past, I'd like to share, if I may. It is my aurora borealis story.
My freinds and I were Explorer Scouts at a local TV/Radio station in the early 70's. Every summer we worked the local 4H fair, and one night we were on our way home after the fair, 4 of us in a car, only the driver (Marc) was old enough to drive. Somebody saw an aurora boreaslis.
So we're hanging out the car windows gawking at it, and apparently we'd attracted the attention of a police officer who ended up stopping us. Our friend Marc explained what we had been doing at the 4H Fair and that we were heading home. Officer friendly replied "Are there any other clubs or organizations you belong to that might interest me"?
That was enough to shut up everybody, except me, who (un) wisely informed the officer of the aurora borealis. I can't remember exactly the rest, but he was not at all impressed with me. Nor were my buddies. Eventually, the policeman left and never did look up at the sky.
Years later at a family get-together at my in-laws, somehow the subject of aurora borealis' came up. My father-in-law, then a city homocide detective told the story of stopping 4 kids one night who spoke of this aurora borealis thing, and he stated later he actually thought 'what the heck', and looked up and saw the lights in the sky.
The officer was, as you have figured out by now, my future father-in-law, and he had no idea I was one of the kids as he told the story. Let alone the idiot kid in the back seat who was carrying on about the aurora borealis. My then wife recalled him coming home that night and talking about the lights in the sky.
Ok, back to the Seaview....