If you were anywhere in the US on this day, you know what a big event the Solar Eclipse was for millions of people in the country. Even when we were traveling back from Nauvoo, there were signs about good spots to watch the eclipse especially in Wyoming which had a band of totality. Gary was smart and ordered our glasses, but we decided not to make a trip north or east to see the totality because we felt that 92% would be pretty special.
Gary had taken his mother to a doctor's appointment and then they stopped at the Center where our brother-in-law Allan lives to share the eclipse with him. He was asleep but Gary shared his glasses with staff who took turns heading to the patio to watch it.
I was home with Jena and we had the TV showing the event as it started in Oregon and proceeded east across the country.
One thing I hadn't heard of before was to watch the shadows and sure enough they were changing throughout the eclipse--most common were these crescent ones.
It is hard to see but at the height of the eclipse at our house it got slightly darker and you could see these two little crescent shadows on the sidewalk.
A few minutes after we came inside, I heard my phone beep and I had a message from Jena. She had gone back outside to take a picture of the fading eclipse. She rarely takes pictures so I hadn't thought to tell her not to take one with her cell phone. I was worried that she might have hurt her eyes or her phone, but all are well and look at this amazing picture. I am really not sure why it caught that image, but it is amazing.
Jessica and Elessia decided on Sunday that they wanted to travel to Idaho Falls and see the total eclipse. They drove up and back in the same day and then Jessica went into work for the night shift. They loved it and said that it was so amazing. One quote I saw stated that to see an eclipse at 92% compared to 100% is like comparing the numbers 3 to 3,000,000--no comparison at all. After watching the coverage, I agree and am already planning to make a trip to Texas at the first part of August in 2024 to see the total eclipse.
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| total in Idaho! |
Nature is so COOL!
(Of course with the recent landfall of Hurricane Harvey in Texas, I also am humbled by its great power that we as man have no control over at all. We live on the earth--we admire it, we use its resources, we build bridges and tunnels and try to hold rivers in their ways--but it has a higher master than us. And nature obeys the laws set forth for it with exactness. I am not saying that our Heavenly Father targeted Houston and surrounding areas for a hurricane. I really don't know how all of that works, but I know that He created the laws that the earth follows--all of science is known to Him and His son, Jesus Christ. And when the winds and water and currents meet the scientific formula for an hurricane--a hurricane will happen.)
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