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Aurora Borealis (The Northern Lights.)

Excitement is running high in the Fairy School the Fairies have been told that at the week-end they will be taken to see the Aurora Borealis or as most people call them the Northern Lights high in the artic or North Pole region. These wonderful effects may also be seen in the Antarctic there they are called the Southern Lights or Borealis Australis. Our journey will be transportation by means of Magic. Many may ask what are the Northern and Southern Lights? Not an easy question to answer but I will tell you how the Wise Old Fairy Teachers explained them to the Fairy Children.

The sun, which is very hot, has eruptions something like a volcano. These eruptions are thrown for many miles out into space. Most of them fall back into the sun. Each of these eruptions give off very small particles, which we call atoms. These atoms are carried by the solar winds to and beyond the Earth in fact they are carried in all directions away from the sun. As the atoms hit the magnetosphere that as all know is holding us in our position in the heavens above. The atoms begin to glow and some very wonderful effects happen. Green shades of light spread across the skies in wavy forms. This has been happening ever since the sun and the planets were thrown into the skies or what we call space. To get the real details one may look for Aurora Borealis in one of the search engines, Google or Bing or any other search engine that you may prefer. The explanation that the Wise Old fairies gave to the children is very simple.

The great day arrived and I was invited to join the party of Fairy school children. I met the Fairy Children and the Wise Old Fairies by the old oak tree. We all formed a ring holding each others hands. Then the feeling overcame me like it always does when I travel by magic. Suddenly the feeling stopped and we were floating high above the ground. The colour of the Northern Lights going from deep red to pale green was one of the most fascinating sights I have ever been privileged to see. The whole sky was in movement and it was not long before the fairy children broke out of the ring and had great fun sliding down the ever-moving beams of light.

It was time for us to return to Fairyland and the Wise Old Fairies counted the children to make sure that all returned back to safely to Fairyland. To our dismay two of the Fairies were missing. We were all now holding hands and we looked all over for the two missing Fairy Children. I spotted them just as they were sliding down a new beam of light. A wave of a wand from one of the Wise Old Fairies and the two missing Fairies were now part of the circle. Again the strange feeling one gets travelling by magic and we arrived safely by the old oak tree.

The following day the children were given paintbrushes and tubes of paint. Some were given coloured pencils all were asked to paint or colour the Northern Lights that they had seen the day previously. I was asked to judge the pictures. The oil paintings and the coloured pencil drawings I separated into two piles. I was amazed at how true most of the pictures were. The children had captured nearly every detail of this historic day watching the lights of the Aurora Borealis. I decide to tell the children that all of them were winners as the paintings and the pictures with the coloured pencils were all excellent. I have some of the pictures hanging on the walls in my front room and often spend an hour or more looking at the pictures and reliving that Memorial Day watching the Northern Lights. Bern.