Eclipses Are Magic
I went out to see this morning's -- just for the impressive twenty minutes or so -- with the sky nicely cloudy so the show was visible when the thinner cloud patches opened on it. Which was pretty much for all the sliver parts. There's the weird light, the mildly confused birds, the odd person looking up, some just because you are. (The four seagulls deciding that the weirdness was clearly caused by the red kite and mobbing it till it was forced to let the sun come back). People griped about the cloud cover. I really prefer it... because I'd rather keep glancing up and watching the actual sun and moon than looking at a shadow play in a pinhole camera or through a collander.
I stood for a while in the moon's shadow. And it was cool.
[My personal world went a bit bad after the last eclipse I watched. I'm hoping that since my personal world has been a bit bad up until this week... well New Years haven't been working so maybe partial eclipses will draw lines. So although not being social has become a habit already, I'm posting this. Now. Before I consider waiting for the tax year or something -- I probably shouldn't because I've a lot of OMGWTF this is evil/stupid stories from the last week, let alone the last three months, but maybe I'll just tell people about the reading experiment... although so far that also contains a lot of OMG/That'sracist(tm)/Wholikesthiscrap? sadness :D]
So hey, there was an eclipse. I'm posting to lj. One's not going to happen here again for 90 years, the other might happen again sooner... you never know.
I stood for a while in the moon's shadow. And it was cool.
[My personal world went a bit bad after the last eclipse I watched. I'm hoping that since my personal world has been a bit bad up until this week... well New Years haven't been working so maybe partial eclipses will draw lines. So although not being social has become a habit already, I'm posting this. Now. Before I consider waiting for the tax year or something -- I probably shouldn't because I've a lot of OMGWTF this is evil/stupid stories from the last week, let alone the last three months, but maybe I'll just tell people about the reading experiment... although so far that also contains a lot of OMG/That'sracist(tm)/Wholikesthiscrap? sadness :D]
So hey, there was an eclipse. I'm posting to lj. One's not going to happen here again for 90 years, the other might happen again sooner... you never know.