We didn’t travel to watch today’s total eclipse. We were in Oregon in 2017 and watched that one with some friends. That was a fun celebration.
This time we watched a 92% eclipse from our yard. It was mostly cloudy. It got a little darker and cooler during the peak. The birds got more active. We got to see the crescent through the clouds a few times. We took some cellphone snaps through the eclipse glasses, but they came out like this.
A blurry crescent.
We know now that if we look directly at the sun without eclipse glasses, the light will burn through our retinas and our brains will burst into flames, but when we were kids, when we were 10, didn’t we have contests to see who could stare at the sun the longest? We didn’t spend any time looking at the sun today without eclipse glasses, but even so, I don’t really like the way my eyes feel afterward. I still feel a little snow blind. I think I like lunar eclipses better.