Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️

A photo of my patio holiday decorations, which include icicle lights on the railing, large light up red candy canes, a skeleton in a Santa hat waving, and three illuminated ghosts with elf hats on.

A photo of my patio holiday decorations, which include icicle lights on the railing, large light up red candy canes, a skeleton in a Santa hat waving, and three illuminated ghosts with elf hats on.

A close up photo of the icicle lights on the railing and the skeleton in a Santa hat waving.

I have no place to store my Halloween decorations, so now they're Christmas decorations! Skelly Santa and his ghost elves 🎅👻

Sure did. :)

I did. Had to lift it up lol.

A photo looking at the corner of my bed, where my dog is sticking his head and front legs out and looking up at me with pleading eyes.

I'm not exactly sure how, but Chaser got stuck under the bed and hit me with the 🥺.

Still beautiful every time despite seeing it most nights. 🙌

A third quarter Moon rising just above a dark tree line. The Moon rises through a thin veil of hazy clouds. Numerous craters are visible along the edge of the Moon.

Third quarter Moon rising. #photography

A photo of my dog laying on the bed, tummy up, with his mouth wide open smiling and his legs raised in the air.

Having a normal one!

Lmao I usually wait for a southern Kansas or northern Oklahoma sighting before I consider it. If its meh up there, I don't go out. Holding strong at home, grading physics exams, so far. 😅

Your moment of zen with the sights and sounds from the Merced River in Yosemite Valley.

Note: zero saturation added. I actually had to desaturate the reds lol.

This was the third time I've seen aurora from Oklahoma, but the first time I saw vibrant red and orange pillars with the naked eye. Legit almost cried. Can't imagine how much a full sky show up north would hit me. Some day...

A photograph of tall, vibrantly red-orange aurora pillars on the horizon. The foreground is a brown farm field with a few bare trees and hay bales. Above the aurora is the faint band of the Milky Way.

A little aurora & Milky Way combo from last night. Not too shabby for far southern Oklahoma, eh? #photography

A night sky photo shot over a brown farm field. On the horizon are vibrant pink pillars of aurora, with many stars and the band of the Milky Way scratching horizontally toward the top of the frame.

The Milky Way over aurora over far southern Oklahoma 0n 11/11. #photography

Y'all this is the best. I'm in rural Oklahoma and there's people stopped on a lot of the exit ramps along the highway watching the aurora. Many have likely never seen it before. One old southern dude stopped beside me asking if I see the "big orange lights" too. We're all just little curious humans.

Pink Aurora filling the sky

This is currently from my apartment, looking toward the city, in far SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA. Entire sky is full of color with this sub storm.

Nights like this are the best. All the trouble of the world is momentarily set aside while we're collectively marveling at the pretty lights and nature together. This is how it's supposed to be. Life, I mean. Shared joy and all. 🙂

A cell phone photo of red aurora

Absolutely wild naked eye visible pillars all the way down here on the Oklahoma/Texas border. Cell phone shot here. #aurora

A two frame meme from Seinfeld. The top frame is a picture of Jerry basking in a red glow. "Good lord! Whats happening in there?" The bottom frame is Kramer in his doorway, also basked in a red glow. "Aurora borealis."

My entire timeline rn.

"I build many ballrooms...and that's my greatest strength, actually."

The US President's greatest strength is... having someone else make ballrooms for him. Incredible, sir, just what we needed.

Girl, you watch the Vikings every week wdym.

At this point we both deserve a tie at 0-0.

Thanks so much, Spike! 🙏

Thanks, Ian! Means a lot. :)

Mother nature showing off in every way. 💅

Yes, as stated, ~50% of voters.

lmao people have been saying his base will "turn" on him for a DECADE now. It ain't happening.

Exactly! You have to work a little harder to find the beauty in some, but its there in every single one. 👏

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It is! Hard to believe, isn't it? Here's some more photos from there (its a thread): bsky.app/profile/spah...

Thanks, Alex! I forget exactly, but I think that one was around a 10 second exposure on my Sony a7iii.

I am actually going to scream. Dems just swept the Tuesday elections. Trump was boo'd for two straight minutes at the Commanders game. They were considering torching the fillibuster. Polls were consistently showing more people blamed Rs for the shutdown.