That’s a good photo. I’m not in the totality path, 98 percent or so here, but it would be nice to see. Hope the good vibes can clear things up. 
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Our clouds increased in the last hour, but the eclipse is still visible as they blow by and through
Alas, the clouds edited the eclipse as if it never happened. All we got was a gloomier light akin to a shitty November day. Glad we didn’t make any major plans 
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It just looked like we were in for rain. The only totality was the cloud cover. Upside: I roasted a special “Eclipse” edition of coffee. Gotta have fun somehow.
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Trip to the Pie Plate?
https://www.thepieplate.com/
Make a nice strong coffee martini!
Or an irish coffee
Or something to drown the feels
We were cloudy here too, but got good moments, that’s all I needed.
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@jammy Balzac’s in NOTL may also offer these drinks, that are available at the Balzac’s off Lansdowne . Also- inspiration for DIY.
We got about 93% totality. This is a pic I got about 5 minutes after it happened (filtered through my eclipse glasses over my lens).
It doesn’t really do it justice.
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Nice!
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I was outside and completely forgot about it here in northern California. Lol .
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Stay off the roads. Restaurants will be booked. Hotels are sold out. Driving up through the I-35 corridor yesterday traffic was flowing at normal speed. I noticed restaurant parking lots were half full. Our cutoff took us through several towns that were On The Map SE wise and it was dead as usual on a Sunday. One town that has been ‘advertising’ on the news for the last 2 months kept saying they expected 200,000 visitors. Today it was a few thousand. Texas media really blew this out of proportion. OK end of rant.
We watched our front row view (Northeast TX) of the SE on our back deck today. It would have been a whole lot better without those solar/3d movie glasses, but when it finally went dark , frogs in the back croaking away and I could take those glasses off. It was spectacular. Will I remember it for the rest of my life? I doubt it. Frankly, I’m glad it’s over and done with…
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Took my sister an hour this morning from their cabin near Sunday River, Maine, to get where she was going to watch the eclipse.
Took her 2-1/2 hours to get back to her cabin.
Her words were “magical and surreal”.
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Say what? How is that pronounced?
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Your co-worker’s photo captures how we observed the eclipse as its peak, wow. I think the celestial show was awesome here, even though we weren’t positioned to observe totality.
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It’s an Abenaki/eastern Algonquin word - pronounced Moose-look-meh-gun-tick, I’m assuming!
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We took a little eclipse trip, north to Plattsburgh and lucked out every which way except for the traffic jam on the way home (what should have been a 5ish hour trip took about 8 1/2). Worth it? Absolutely. These were taken with my ancient iPhone SE. I have better pix from my 2017 eclipse trip, when I brought a “real” camera.
Eerie almost-totality light:
Totality!
The sun returns, and everyone is so relieved.
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Were there people expecting it not to?
Great pics!
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There’s always a first time.
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A musician friend just posted this on Facebook. I’m not much of a Bukowski fan, but this hit home.
a terrible need
some people
simply
search out
unhappiness.
they’ll scrounge it out
in any given situation
taking any whim
any simple error
and then become
hateful
vengeful.
don’t they realize
that there’s
so
little
time?
And to mutilate it
like this…
there’s never
ever
any way
to recover all
that was wasted.
– Charles Bukowski
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