The Joy of Vicarious Eclipse Watching

[elisem]

While I didn't go anywhere there was an eclipse, reading the reports of those who did get themselves to where eclipse viewing was available has been lovely. Some lucky people only had to get themselves outside their domicile to view it. Some traveled significant distances. If they wrote about it, I'm sharing their delight in it now.

Have you seen any accounts of it that you particularly liked reading? A phrase or two that delighted you, made you think, caught your curiosity?

Comments

[pameladean]

I really liked ysabetwordsmith's post in the community common_nature.

I'm glad I got to see the eclipse in 2017, since we were clouded out here for the partial one.

P.

[elisem]

Oh, that's a nice one. Love all the leaf shadows on sidewalk photos.

[pameladean]

Yes, those really put the icing on the cake.

I've also loved other accounts, but I think you know all the people who wrote them.

P.

[lokifan]

I liked sabotabby's post.

[elisem]

I couldn't find it. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?

[kore]

This one was lovely -- I don't know them, I saw it on network:

https://kiya.dreamwidth.org/781908.html

[davidgoldfarb]

swan_tower had one I liked: Total Eclipse of the Sun.

Where I was, things were looking promising around midday, and then half an hour before totality the clouds rolled back in. We were able to see the last bits of crescent sun through the occasional break, but nothing of the occluded sun or the corona. I got to see the 2017 eclipse and had been really looking forward to one that would last longer, so this was a bitter disappointment.

[rosefox]

hannah's is lyrical, vivid, extraordinary.