So I just went for my physical, and it's wrapping up, I'm waiting for my dr. to come back. Suddenly, he comes in all excited, grabs my arm says, come here! We go out to the patio outside his office, he hands me the Special Eclipse 3-D Glasses Thingies, and says, put these on, it'll be black til you look up!
And it was, til I looked up and saw my very first eclipse.
Yes, I have a very cool dr. who I've gone to for decades.
I was in the path of totality without glasses and on the wrong side of the building here downtown (was late in learning of this).
It was the weirdest feeling. The colour of the buildings became dull and flat as the eclipse began. Then before the total, a weird light as if the sun broke through. Total eclipse is so different from partial eclipses.
My solar lights on the balcony came on at the darkest and people began cheering. The pigoens flew home. The birds stopped singing. I could see marks of a sunset in the distance.
For me, it was the sensation of the darkness coming down. I could feel the changes. At first I was totally creeped out. Then I cried.
@Danetteb He's so amazing. We talk politics all the time, we've become friends over the years. He gave us his cell number for any time we may need him in an emergency. He was my dad's (a dr.) dr.