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My Total Solar Eclipse Experience
My house sits in the path of totality for the 2024 solar eclipse. As the hour approached, me and my family gathered in the yard with our eclipse glasses.
We watched through the dark lenses as the sun became an orange crescent. Or a yellow crescent, depending on which glasses someone wore. My son even said the moon looked pink in one pair of glasses he tried.
I tried taking some photos on my iPhone. Some strange lighting effects happened, but they didn’t really turn out.
Gradually, the grass and trees darkened. The shadows lengthened in an eerie kind of way. It was like an Instagram filter descended on the world. Birds began singing and chirping. A pair of bees corkscrewed through the air.
I tried taking pictures again, this time using an extra pair of eclipse glasses over the camera. They kind of turned out.
A breeze picked up, as the changing thermal heating of the ground created wind currents. The temperature dropped bit by bit.
