Day 8...The All Natural Led Zepplin Laser Light Show
Last night was our night off - went to cast member Brian's cabin out of town for a bon fire and some amazing food. Ate steak, bison burgers, salad, baba ganoush, chips. Then the fire and smores. It was a Whitehorse feast.
Sat around chatting for hours and hours, got a tour of Brian and his wife Emily's esquisite cabin. It was built by an artistian before they bought it - Emily, a potter, has her own studio outside and they're going to build a work studio for Brian as well. An atrium and a garden is also on there 2 1/2 acre plot of land. It made me want to cry with envy.
Emily is 3 months pregnant so we didn't get to into the drinking which was great because I was drinking cranberry juice and soda water. I found out the hard way not to drink a glass of wine from the local pubs - I think it comes out a box that's been fermenting in some back room somewhere.
As we sat under last nights full moon, I saw the most amazing fucking thing I have ever seen: The Northern Lights, but not just the Northern Lights. It started off small at first, strange looking cloud formations that we identified as the Lights, then the formations turned into columns and then waves of white light. The waves kept lapping up against the shore of the moon, as all the formations looked as if they were coming straight out of the moon's glowing face. Then the waves became the entire ocean on an incredibly windly day, eddies and tributaries in pink and green and purple and blue, the entire sky full of light and colour. At one point the sky turned a brilliant pink and then glowed with white, the stars barely audible behind the scream of colour and movement. I wept - it was so awe inspiring. None of my words can do any justice to what I saw. I can understand why the Lights were worshipped as something to behold and also something to fear. It looks like both armegeddon and some goddess raining down well-wishes. Beautiful, in the real sense of beautiful. Not a hallmark card or a box of chocolates beautiful. But life-affirming, alarming and full of silent sound. Even the old timers hadn't seen anything like that for a long long while.
I went to bed dreaming of the sea and the sky making love.
Sat around chatting for hours and hours, got a tour of Brian and his wife Emily's esquisite cabin. It was built by an artistian before they bought it - Emily, a potter, has her own studio outside and they're going to build a work studio for Brian as well. An atrium and a garden is also on there 2 1/2 acre plot of land. It made me want to cry with envy.
Emily is 3 months pregnant so we didn't get to into the drinking which was great because I was drinking cranberry juice and soda water. I found out the hard way not to drink a glass of wine from the local pubs - I think it comes out a box that's been fermenting in some back room somewhere.
As we sat under last nights full moon, I saw the most amazing fucking thing I have ever seen: The Northern Lights, but not just the Northern Lights. It started off small at first, strange looking cloud formations that we identified as the Lights, then the formations turned into columns and then waves of white light. The waves kept lapping up against the shore of the moon, as all the formations looked as if they were coming straight out of the moon's glowing face. Then the waves became the entire ocean on an incredibly windly day, eddies and tributaries in pink and green and purple and blue, the entire sky full of light and colour. At one point the sky turned a brilliant pink and then glowed with white, the stars barely audible behind the scream of colour and movement. I wept - it was so awe inspiring. None of my words can do any justice to what I saw. I can understand why the Lights were worshipped as something to behold and also something to fear. It looks like both armegeddon and some goddess raining down well-wishes. Beautiful, in the real sense of beautiful. Not a hallmark card or a box of chocolates beautiful. But life-affirming, alarming and full of silent sound. Even the old timers hadn't seen anything like that for a long long while.
I went to bed dreaming of the sea and the sky making love.
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