Light show
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 09:55 
Photo Randy Vanderveen Cutbank Lake, north of Lake Saskatoon, Alberta The northern lights dance over the barn on the Monkman homestead on the shores of Cutbank Lake in northern Alberta. Alex Monkman was a an early pioneer in the Peace Country who was known as a rancher and farmer in the early 1900s.
Here are a few photos from a recent display of northern lights. The contrast on the photos has been bumped up slightly. I hope you enjoy them.
Photo Randy Vanderveen near Buffalo Lakes east of LaGlace, Alberta The northern lights dancing across the night sky frame a combine parked for the night in a field east of Buffalo Lakes. Harvest is underway across the Prairies.
Photo Randy Vanderveen Sexsmith, Alberta The northern lights fill the skies above one of the elevators standing in the town of Sexsmith. The "Prairie Sentinels" are rapidly disappearing across the west as they are replaced by concrete and metal terminals.
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