That was absolutely amazing!!!
I have been privileged throughout my life to have seen many many meteor showers, a full lunar eclipse, many partial solar eclipses, a halo around the sun, snow rollers and many other natural phenomena, but this was truly a once-in-my-lifetime event!
Since we were in the path of totality...John and I decided to make a day out of it with the reflective glasses...sitting outside together and later spoiling Tux and fixing battered and fried morel mushrooms. He had never experienced a total eclipse, either.
Completely incredible.
There were a lot of people outside with blankets or lawn chairs.
He had extra Eclipse Glasses which we shared with neighbors.
The build-up was slow and like all of the partials we had ever seen.
Then as the face of the sun was covered to barely a sliver it got cooler...and quieter...you could see the tiny beads before totality and Jupiter and Venus became visible. And the photo-negative gray gave way to a bright corona ring and the sky turned into night.
Dark. Darkness.
At 2:30 in the middle of a sunny day.
No wonder medieval people were freaked the hell out.
It was mesmerizing.
(...Tux could not even be coaxed out...even during the return of the sun...)
And at its peak...when darkness enveloped us all...the sounds of the people near and further away...celebrating...cheering...clapping.
It was intense.
Such an emotional moment...to know, for some of us, we will never see this ever again.
For he and I, to share this moment together.
Afterwards, the morels were pretty good, too...
love,
Carla, John and the cats!
