Well, you got some really great crescents! I didn’t even know there was such a thing , but when Mark was here for our partial eclipse last year, he had a camera set up to get a video of them through a tree on our university parking lot. I thought is was so cool. I really had never paid that much attention to eclipses. Mark’s enthusiasm was contagious. :) He loves anything weather-related.
Steve had a great stream on the eclipse today. He used footage from NASA and other sources to show the progression from the time it first hit land in Mazatlan Mexico until it was completely over in Burlington, VT. Kinda fun.
I discovered the crescents by accident in ‘94 when we had a partial eclipse. I didn’t have the special glasses back then so had my piece of cardboard with a hole in it and used the sidewalk to see the sun on.
The sun was shining through the leaves of a holly tree and the shadows were cast on the sidewalk too. It dawned on me they looked funny and when I looked closely, there were all these cool little crescents.
We had a partial eclipse last year, I believe it was, and it was on a museum day. I took my glasses with me too step outside to check it out between tours. I walked out with a couple I’d just finished taking through and asked if they’d like to use the glasses to see the sun, and they did. Another couple with a young daughter walked up about that time and they looked too. Then I took them all over to a spot where the sun was casting leaf shadows on the pavement and there were the crescents. None of them had ever seen that before so they were all excited.
Speaking of the museum, I’ll head up there Wed. for a group tour that’s scheduled. I’m sooooo glad there’s a tour. I’ll tag along to listen to Da Boss give his spiel to get an idea of his mindset for the new arrangement. Then I’ll have time to put my own together and be ready to rock ‘n’ roll when we reopen.
I pray it doesn’t rain on that Saturday opening weekend. The man who owns those gorgeous Civil War cannon replicas plans to roll them out to shoot them that day. Been waiting for him to do that since he took them to the museum two years ago. You know how I love big “BOOMS”. LOL