I felt the same surprise yesterday as Kizzie about how much light we had even with 98%+ of the sun blocked. It was just dark enough to trigger the street lights. It was kind of like dusk, except that the light came from all around instead of just from the west.
DJ, you mentioned yesterday that the last total eclipse on the west coast was in 1923. Perhaps true of California, but the Pacific Northwest had a total eclipse in 1979 (the one I traveled to with my college buddies).
Wow, what a stunning photo! Almost brings shivers. What an amazing place this is, God’s universe.
Kevin, I was surprised at how many partial eclipses there have been, relatively speaking, but I don’t remember a total eclipse on the west coast in ’79; I think the 1923 date came up when I searched total eclipses for California; but not that far away, we must have had something significant, too, in 1979. I was busy, I guess.
We’re getting up to 77 degrees today before going back down into the 60s with more rain possibly on Saturday. I just cleared off a bunch of “webbing” from the front porch railings and overhang.
Tuesday? Sunshine blue skies. But it feels much colder than 50.
April is a painful month financially isn’t it Dj? Property taxes, federal taxes and car taxes. We get a one month reprieve before we are hit with house and car insurance premiums in June. I always breath a sigh of relief when it’s over with for another year!
We experienced the eclipse in Phoenix in 1979. I remember preparing for it more than I remember seeing it. It’s possible that the teachers had scared us enough about how dangerous it is to look at it that I never looked at it, I don’t know.
I looked for the special shadows people mentioned and never did see them. (My husband did; he watched from our patio, but I wanted a view with trees and birds, so I walked a couple blocks to see it.) I did see a lovely purple “sunset” at midday, and birds started singing. But the actual juxtapostion of two heavenly bodies was amazing–and the fact that God created the earth with so much regularity that scientists knew years in advance just what areas would see totality and what exact time (to the second) we would experience it.
Interestingly, when totality started I heard a lot of applause. (I couldn’t see people from where I watched it, but I walked by several groups on my way there.) The applause didn’t surprise me, as it’s how Americans express pleasure . . . but then I also heard fireworks, and that did surprise me. (Someone who lived near a house that set off fireworks was quite annoyed. She said she wanted to hear the birds, not fireworks.)
We drove 3+ hours Sunday to my brother’s house in SE MO. Enjoyed viewing the totality with 2 nieces and a nephew. I forgot how it gets colder when the sun disappears. It reminded me of a night with a full moon. It looked like sunset off to the west where there was partial eclipse.
Then it took almost 6 hours to get home because of the traffic. We even waited an hour to let it dissipate. And the rural part of the road from St. Louis that usually has little traffic at night was crowded, but not a traffic jam. Most of the cars were from Iowa and Minnesota.
Art told me that Hispanics now live across from his office and they have chickens. His favorite part of the eclipse was seeing the chickens bed down as if for evening.😀
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Great photo of the eclipse. I am so thankful the weather turned out nicely for so many to see it!
Getting ready for Bible study. We are still in Kingdom Authority by Tony Evans. So good!
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We saw nothing except for on the television. We had rain all day.
We went and watched Karen Kingsbury’s movie, “Someone Like You.” We both enjoyed it.
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Great pic, Cheryl, thanks!
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I felt the same surprise yesterday as Kizzie about how much light we had even with 98%+ of the sun blocked. It was just dark enough to trigger the street lights. It was kind of like dusk, except that the light came from all around instead of just from the west.
DJ, you mentioned yesterday that the last total eclipse on the west coast was in 1923. Perhaps true of California, but the Pacific Northwest had a total eclipse in 1979 (the one I traveled to with my college buddies).
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Our last shot at totality was 2017. My deepest impression was the leaf shadows. It reminded me of the thin barrier between us and Heaven.
mumsee
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Good morning, all. A beautiful cloud covered day here with lots of rain.
mumsee
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Wow, what a stunning photo! Almost brings shivers. What an amazing place this is, God’s universe.
Kevin, I was surprised at how many partial eclipses there have been, relatively speaking, but I don’t remember a total eclipse on the west coast in ’79; I think the 1923 date came up when I searched total eclipses for California; but not that far away, we must have had something significant, too, in 1979. I was busy, I guess.
We’re getting up to 77 degrees today before going back down into the 60s with more rain possibly on Saturday. I just cleared off a bunch of “webbing” from the front porch railings and overhang.
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Now the spiders will have no place to go but indoors.
mumsee
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Held up the credit union to pay the property tax bill.
(only my own savings account, left everyone else’s money there)
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Tuesday? Sunshine blue skies. But it feels much colder than 50.
April is a painful month financially isn’t it Dj? Property taxes, federal taxes and car taxes. We get a one month reprieve before we are hit with house and car insurance premiums in June. I always breath a sigh of relief when it’s over with for another year!
Nj
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We experienced the eclipse in Phoenix in 1979. I remember preparing for it more than I remember seeing it. It’s possible that the teachers had scared us enough about how dangerous it is to look at it that I never looked at it, I don’t know.
I looked for the special shadows people mentioned and never did see them. (My husband did; he watched from our patio, but I wanted a view with trees and birds, so I walked a couple blocks to see it.) I did see a lovely purple “sunset” at midday, and birds started singing. But the actual juxtapostion of two heavenly bodies was amazing–and the fact that God created the earth with so much regularity that scientists knew years in advance just what areas would see totality and what exact time (to the second) we would experience it.
Interestingly, when totality started I heard a lot of applause. (I couldn’t see people from where I watched it, but I walked by several groups on my way there.) The applause didn’t surprise me, as it’s how Americans express pleasure . . . but then I also heard fireworks, and that did surprise me. (Someone who lived near a house that set off fireworks was quite annoyed. She said she wanted to hear the birds, not fireworks.)
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We drove 3+ hours Sunday to my brother’s house in SE MO. Enjoyed viewing the totality with 2 nieces and a nephew. I forgot how it gets colder when the sun disappears. It reminded me of a night with a full moon. It looked like sunset off to the west where there was partial eclipse.
Then it took almost 6 hours to get home because of the traffic. We even waited an hour to let it dissipate. And the rural part of the road from St. Louis that usually has little traffic at night was crowded, but not a traffic jam. Most of the cars were from Iowa and Minnesota.
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Wonderful photo, Cheryl!
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Really good photo! I was hoping we’d get to see it!
I’ve worked at camp almost 10 years and this was the second partial eclipse.
I remember the 1979 one in Calgary – my class all went outside with the science teacher to observe (safely)
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Art told me that Hispanics now live across from his office and they have chickens. His favorite part of the eclipse was seeing the chickens bed down as if for evening.😀
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