Peek a Honey Boo Boo!

We were ready for the solar eclipse today! We even got the glasses!

It was pretty cool. You could see the whole thing with the glasses that we bought last week. 

Fun.

It's a total eclipse of ....err...well it is a 70% eclipse....err...it's a day off.

So yesterday we took the day off to see the eclipse. We had the glasses that I talked about and we went with a few friends to Valentino Pier in Red Hook.

This is the pier in Red Hook named after Louie Valentino who was I guy I went to school with all through grammar school and High School. His dad was a big deal in the ILA which was the longshoreman's union. One of my greatest regrets is that I didn't go in the union like he asked. I could have gotten involved in the union and stolen a huge pile of money.

There were a huge amount of people. Well a couple of hundred anyway. Kids. Dogs. Lawn Chairs. It was a party. Everyone looked up at the eclipse. Total strangers fell into conversation. While their dogs pissed on kids. Or their kids pissed on dogs. You see parents don't pay any attention to their freaking kids. The pet owners pay way more attention. They just don't care where their dogs shit or piss. New York. I gotta get out of here.

After 4 o'clock pretty much everyone left and we sat down and had lunch. It is beautiful there. The sea air was beautiful. It was war. I was looking out at the water. I turned to my wife and said "Why aren't we doing this every day instead of only where there is a freakin' eclipse of the sun."

Solar Eclipse pics

people attempt to view the eclipse

Accidental pic

Oregon

KLEM AM

Dappled, non-stick photos of the 2017 eclipse from my mailbox:

I don't have any filters so I took indirect pictures of the partial eclipse we had here. 

Two of those utilize the leaves on my walnut tree to form multiple pinhole cameras, the other is a picture I took of the image cast by a "pinhole" camera I made using a scrap of walnut through which I bored a half inch diameter hole. 

Eclipse is over, as you were.

Photo by Sixty Grit

Photo by Sixty Grit

Photo by Sixty Grit

Question for Sixty: Are you going to butcher that walnut tree someday for its wood?

Solar Eclipse 2015 (update)

We can all stop posting crappy photos of the #Eclipse2015 now, the International Space Station just won. pic.twitter.com/qA3IXJ7vTA
— Ryan Daws (@Gadget_Ry) March 20, 2015

(Update) Solar Eclipse 2015: International Space Station Photo Was Fake.

But wait there is more... Not just a solar eclipse!

"Today sees THREE astronomical phenomena take place as the supermoon and spring equinox align"

While people in the UK were treated to an eclipse, other events took place

Today marks the spring equinox, when day and night is roughly equal

And it is also a supermoon, with the moon at its closest point to Earth

It is very rare for the three events to occur at the same time

Closer to our neck of the woods.... 36 Million Americans Under Some Type Of Winter Weather Advisory On First Day Of Spring.