The Totality: An Excuse to Visit Idaho
Total Eclipse of the Sun, photo by my husband, August 21, 2017. Somewhere in Idaho......
We passed the Potato Museum, also Atomic City, but we didn't stop. We had a camp to pitch!
Our journey took us through endless farmland and desert flats. But somehow, my husband had cyberscouted a drop of emerald green for us to camp in for the celestial event.
This tiny track led us to our gorgeous viewing station.
Glamping in a meadow full of purple asters
...with an elk trail established right behind our tent. Were elk behind the mystery of the licked-clean chili beans left on a plate the first night?
The meadow was abuzz with plentiful insects, including this oddity.
Even at near-totality, my phone couldn't handle shooting into the eclipse...
...but I did manage to capture this bizarre reflection of my own eye when trying to shoot through my safety glasses.
The total solar eclipse was a very weird experience to witness. I felt discombobulated, and a little bit queasy. The character of the light was so unnatural, and the moment when we could gaze at the corona with our bare eyes was indescribable.
I can imagine how the ancients felt about such a wondrous spectacle. It felt portentious.
I celebrated by tormenting my son with quips about the "waxing gibbous sun", which he vigorously denies being a thing. Apparently, gibbousness only applies to the moon. Who knew?
What a trip to see a total eclipse of the Sun in person!!
"waxing gibbous sun" that is going to be a thing now ;-)
Beautiful pictures! Thank you 4 showing them @creationofcare
I think the bug is a spruce beetle, seen some like that up here.
Eclipse Eye now that is a very trippy picture!
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Love the photos, and I am glad you got to see the eclipse! please respond and I will nominated your travel post to the @OCD Crew!
Sure, thank you so much for the opportunity!
Another absurd question I had fun demanding:
How could the moon cover the whole sun when it wasn't even full???
Cue the filial side-eye!