Monday, August 21, 2017

The Great Eclipse Day

It was nothing short of magical and wondrous.  The air, the atmosphere felt almost electric as totality neared.  Even though we were only about 99% or so in our area, we were a few miles short of 100% darkness so no stars for us.

Here, in my little neck of Idaho, we started at 68 degrees but felt like 76.  It was a tad warm.  The flies were annoying buggers, saw a dragon fly, and had bunch of little butterfly-moth like creatures flying all around.  The neighbor's chicken(s) were making noise until about 3/4 of totality.  The Juncos and Sparrows were chatty until about 50% to totality.  At almost peak, a Hawk took off from the tree right next to the house and flew about 10 -20 feet (maybe?  bad with estimating that sorta thing) right over our heads and house.  And a lone Magpie chatter across the road through it.  By the time we hit total eclipse, it felt like it was 60 degrees if not a little cooler.

The light, was nothing I could capture on film or put to words.  I felt like some one dropped a filter over the sun.  It wasn't dark, it wasn't quite dusk or twilight either.  I thought things looks like a dusky blue-ish purple.  Even the shadow looked different, almost crisper.

I didn't have the proper equipment to take photos.  I used my eclipse glasses over my lens on my Nikon CoolPix and on my tablet to try and take a couple of pictures.  With the camera, I think they still starburst. I haven't uploaded them yet.

Maybe it's all in my head, maybe it's my imagination...but it feels different.

Hope you all enjoyed the eclipse today.  Wishing you New Moon Blessings!