As Lisa Jones exits her SUV after an early sundown in rural southern Alberta, she anticipates seeing colours in the sky she had hitherto only heard about.
Jones says she is not a night person, but all the talk of northern lights sightings on social media and predictions of a strong geomagnetic storm across the province in early October stoked her and her fiancé’s willingness to brave the frigid prairieland after hours. They drove the dark country roads around High River for hours in pursuit of subject matter she'd never seen with her own eyes.
