Eclipse?

I’m glad I didn’t plan my day around the eclipse. I didn’t buy glasses this time. Mostly because I was so afraid of getting counterfeit glasses and damaging my eyes. At this point my eyes are too important to me, so missing the eclipse was not a big deal. It turned out to be even less of a deal than I thought.

In 2017 my favorite thing about the eclipse was the half moon sliver shadows on the walkway. I thought that I would get to see those again this year, since you don’t look up at the sun.

I drove to my private lesson house fifteen minutes early. My student told me she was not going to be home, but that I was welcome to get there early. I pulled in and the terminex Guy was there spraying for bugs.

I got out of the car and waited for the sky to get darker. It didn’t really. The temperature went down a degree or two, but there were no interesting shadows on the ground. The birds acted normally. The Terminex guy asked me if I thought it had happened. I told him I didn’t think so, but the time had passed for the predicted eclipse.

It was a non-event for me. I am glad I saw the one in 2017. I doubt I will have an opportunity to see another and it won’t really change me. I did see some beautiful videos from Maine and I enjoyed that.

I hope that all my friends who went somewhere to be in the line of totality had clear skies. Now I just want to get the ear worm of “total eclipse of the heart” out of my head soon.