Eclipse day 2017.0821Mo. Dog walk, home to breakfast - a biggie - grits, sausage and toast & jelly, then to the YMCA. Getting home just as the Great Eclipse begins.
During the eclipse, what I kept noticing was the difference between the shade, the shadows, and a little bit of confused reaction from bird life. Some of the nocturnal sounds natural to the creatures of the night could also be heard starting up during cloudy periods, but they were faint and only one or two tries. The creatures of the wild seemed to me to be definitely concerned.
In the maximum part of the eclipse, the major indications were (again) the depth of tree shade and the leaf shadows. Oh yes, some of the mailbox-street lights came on too. The shade was darker than usual, and definitely had a different feeling to it than it normally does.
The shadows cast by tree leaves were “curled”, wispy-like, as if cast by Japanese or Chinese artists.
