Month: August 2017

As the morning engagement with the sun approached, we did a little prepping. Although I decided not to try to photograph the sun directly, a classic cereal box viewer was fashioned for Kim and Charlie, and I tried to project a pinhole image onto a viewing surface. And in the heat of the moment, I suddenly tried to photograph the pinhole projection, handheld, an abject failure.

Brother Dennis sent along some event documentation of Laura, himself and another Venice witness.

The hero of the day was Corb who sent me his wonderful image from Salem. Eclipse done right!

 

Then a friend just now sends me this:

And here are some great reader photos just posted by the NYT.

Not sure this is going to show what we want to show.  Here’s the deal:  There’s a tree at the southeast corner of our property that has extended itself well out into the street.  But a guy named Michael, a “certified arborist”, came along today to trim it back to legal and non-disruptive levels.  To begin with, I had trouble finding a relatively recent “before” pic (the one selected shows branches and leafage that hit the top of the relatively low vehicle — the “Blue Rascal” itself — depicted; you might have to look very closely) and the “after” pic is kind of a head scratcher.  But anyway, here we go …