Yesterday, I sat down to desserts (and mocha) at Geste Croissanterie with astronomers Lauren and Seery who were planning to brave the crowds for today’s eclipse. And Lauren came bearing gifts: a pair of eclipse-viewing glasses and a stuffed sharky for Sharky!
We chatted Stargate, Dark Matter, books, and telescopes as we sampled four desserts: the kouign-amman, the Supreme Croissant stuffed with hazelnut cream and nuts, the chocolate-pistachio croissant, and the chocolate chip cookie. As is the custom when dining with me, I had everyone rank the dishes. Surprisingly, each of our rankings were wildly different. Always a good sign.
I tried to explain to Sharky that since he doesn’t have any eyes, he won’t need to protect them during the eclipse, but he wasn’t hearing it. I think he feels the glasses make him look distinguished.
I was told that, here in Toronto, the eclipse would start at 2:04 p.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. with a peak at 3:19 p.m. It was super exciting and I took photos to document this rare phenomenon…
Well, that was underwhelming.
Okay, on to the next big thing. What’ve we got? Meteor shows? Super moons? Asteroid?
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We had a lot of cloud coverage, too. My friend in Arkansas sent me a few good pictures.
The food looks delicious! Ranking those would have been difficult.
GForce: I’m sorry about Zoie. It’s tough losing our little friends. 😔
We had cloud cover in San Antonio, as well. Husband attended the community’s eclipse party; I stayed home and slept off an unrelated headache.
We were very lucky here in NB where the skies were perfectly clear. I drove up just north of Fredericton to be in the path of totality and wow I’m glad I did. Absolutely spectacular. I can’t even begin to describe it other than one of the most bizarre and beautiful things I’ve ever seen. It was wild how a) immediately colder it got and b) how it went from that last bit of light which was still fairly bright down to almost complete darkness in only a couple of seconds.
I’ve wanted to see a total eclipse in person since I was a little kid, and I’m so thankful I got to finally do it this one chance I’ll probably ever have.