Thousand Steps Beach is a rock and sand beach below homes high on the bluff in Santa Barbara. It requires a long hike down a stairway to get to the beach. The concrete stairs, originally constructed in 1923, seems like 1000 steps, but is actually closer to 150.
Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis are results of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere and charged particles released from the sun's atmosphere. Color variations are due to the type of gas particles that are colliding. Beautiful!