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Pat Davis is the founder and publisher of nm.news. In a prior life he served as an Albuquerque City Councilor.
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It wasn’t just the balloons at the Fiesta that were glowing last week.
The Northern Lights, a natural display of light in the Northern Hemisphere, lit up New Mexico Thursday night with a colorful, bright sky.
Thanks to a severe solar storm, the spectacle could be seen throughout Northern New Mexico on Oct. 10, including in the East Mountains.

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