There was a solar eclipse on May 20th -- Eli's first. We were sitting at the dinner table when the world outside started getting dark.
I grabbed my camera. ("Duh. Of course she did!" my friends are all thinking.) The sun flare inside my lens caught the image first. See the little crescent?
By slipping into full manual mode, I finally caught it. The hollowed-out sun is tiny and pixilated, but I'll take it!
The light coming through the trees made crescents on the side of the house.
And inside, the small rays of light coming through the edges of the shutters and onto the wood cabinets focused into crescents as well.
We used an index card with a hole punched in it to project a crescent Eli could see.
The first eclipse I remember was when I was very small. We were living on the Georgia coast then. Our family was having a picnic at a roadside park when suddenly the world started getting dark and the crickets started to sing. I don't remember any particulars other than how it felt eerie but exciting at the same time. I just did a web search and found information for that partiular eclipse. Huh. Fancy that. I was almost exactly Eli's age.
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