I spent the duration of the eclipse yesterday sitting in my lawn chair with the sun shining on my shoulders from the back. I felt the chill descend when the eclipse reached near totality. I saw the light turn a weird yellow that gave me a bit of a chill down my spine. I heard the silence in the trees and throughout the neighborhood.
And I saw the eclipse unfold in hundreds, maybe thousands, of reflections on the front of our house and the sidewalks. The house faces south with an aspen tree strategically placed to create exactly the images I’d heard about when reading blogs about the eclipse.
We also had a pinhole viewer made from a shoebox to watch the movement of the moon between the sun and the earth, but the shadowy reflections were more fun to watch. Without reading those random blogs in advance, I might not have recognized these crescent shapes for what they were.
I think that’s a terrific idea for eclipse-watching, Pat! I really wish I’d had a real view of it, but I don’t live in the path of totality. So there wasn’t nearly as much to see here.
It was pretty cool, Margot. Especially when the light turned so eerie even though we weren’t in the path of 100% totality.
What a fun idea! We didn’t have totality here, but it was interesting to watch the partial.
In Northern Colorado we were getting maybe 95% totality or maybe a little more. I did not want to get out in all that traffic and pay lots of money for a place to stay….and then risk a cloudy day. So staying home worked out just fine.
That is crazy! Wow, that’s a lot better than seeing the eclipse through a pinhole camera. Which is what I had to do. We grew a little dim here, but the sun was still shining bright for being mostly covered.
It really was fascinating! My husband wasn’t convinced we were seeing what I said we were seeing, but when the moon finally started to move away from the sun so the crescents reversed, it became obvious. Lots of fun!