It seems that some people just aren't interested in the eclipse. I think if it was only partial I might not be as interested but if you were in an area of totality it would be so much different. I hope your friend got outside for it. Most all the stores and restaurants in town were closed for the time of the totality.
It sounds like an amazing experience... You have to wonder at the idiot setting off fireworks, though - what, a total solar eclipse wasn't special enough?
Yes, pretty exciting to see them so close - and so many. We don't have elk locally - only white tailed deer which are much smaller.
Yeah - just stupid - probably drunk. They wasted their own experience of it too. I'm at least glad it was on a far hill though it did scare the horses.
We had 70% coverage here. I conscripted some pals, and we drove out to one of the abandoned estates of the one-time feelthy rich (so abundant in these parts) and sat on the grounds.
I wasn't able to score eclipse glasses though I made a pinhole viewer. But like you, I was really curious to see if animals would behave differently.
The temperature dropped - that's the thing I noticed the most. And the shadows elongated - but my brain clung stubbornly to the notion that it was the middle of the afternoon, so I didn't notice any change in ambient light levels. Also, the crickets and cicadas started chirping.
Some people sitting close to us had brought glasses, and they shared. And man! Through those glasses, the eclipse was spectacular. At the moment when the eclipse was as full as it was gonna get in these parts, suddenly all of us on that lawn - friends and strangers alike - got up, moved together, formed a circle holding hands and verbally began giving our thanks to the universe (some of them used the word
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At the beginning it was amazing to see this bite out of the sun growing and growing - something you just never see. I would love to see another totality. It goes by so fast you can hardly grasp it. I'm already looking forward to 2024.
I love your photos! I think you choose your location well for the eclipse. Too bad the idiot set off some fireworks. It was interesting seeing the darkening of the field. We had 90% coverage and it didn't seem to get very dark.
It was interesting that as long as there was even a tiny sliver of sun it didn't look that terribly "dark" (to us cause our eyes would adjust to the lesser light) - though you could tell is was darker than usual. The sun is so amazingly powerful.
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It sounds like an amazing experience... You have to wonder at the idiot setting off fireworks, though - what, a total solar eclipse wasn't special enough?
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Yeah - just stupid - probably drunk. They wasted their own experience of it too. I'm at least glad it was on a far hill though it did scare the horses.
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We had 70% coverage here. I conscripted some pals, and we drove out to one of the abandoned estates of the one-time feelthy rich (so abundant in these parts) and sat on the grounds.
I wasn't able to score eclipse glasses though I made a pinhole viewer. But like you, I was really curious to see if animals would behave differently.
The temperature dropped - that's the thing I noticed the most. And the shadows elongated - but my brain clung stubbornly to the notion that it was the middle of the afternoon, so I didn't notice any change in ambient light levels. Also, the crickets and cicadas started chirping.
Some people sitting close to us had brought glasses, and they shared. And man! Through those glasses, the eclipse was spectacular. At the moment when the eclipse was as full as it was gonna get in these parts, suddenly all of us on that lawn - friends and strangers alike - got up, moved together, formed a circle holding hands and verbally began giving our thanks to the universe (some of them used the word ( ... )
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