The eclipse

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by special-K

I saw on my local news website where they were calling it 'The Great Eclipse". C'mon now, please? Just gotta add drama with giving it a name. If this one was great they all are. I didn't have my welding helmet or glasses with me, so I didn't look at it. The dimmed light wasn't as intense as the one in '17 or when I was really young. what I remembered from way back then, and again in '17 was the cool shadows, so I just looked for those. I can look at pictures of the sun taken by others. My favorite thing is the shadows

We have a pic like that here somewhere. Really cool shadows, with that arc shape.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

We have a pic like that here somewhere. Really cool shadows, with that arc shape.

I first saw these shadows during my first eclipse. I'm not sure what year. I looked at NASA charts and I there was one in 1959 and the other was 1960, meaning I was 4 or 5. I was thinking I was older, like 6 or 7 because I started knowing my cars about then.

Anyway, it was in Maryland and we were on Sligo Creek Parkway, near Washington, DC, and I saw those crescents dancing on the trunk of the mid-50s Buick ahead of us. That vision was deeply planted as I can still see it today