Today I joined millions of others to pause in the middle of the day to observe the solar eclipse. Totality could be found just 75 miles from my home, but with my 2017 experience of both totality and the insane traffic that accompanied it, I opted to enjoy today's eclipse standing in the driveway of my house.
We had about 98% totality here. At the start of the event the temperature was in the low 70s, and the sun provided plenty of warmth. The light in the sky changed noticeably with a little over 30 minutes to go, and continued to diminish with an eerie dimming that didn't quite match the clear sky and sun. The loss of the sun's warmth was even more dramatic.
My daughter and I watched the eclipse through our eclipse glasses, and cast images of the sun onto various surfaces using a small hole through a 3x5 card. The experience stirred memories of watching a partial solar eclipse during my elementary school years. At that time, as I recall, we didn't have eclipse glasses and instead used several layers of 35mm film negatives that had been overexposed and were therefore completely dark.
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