It was spooky, don't you think? The metallic light just before total darkness and a 360 degree dawn as the light returned was certainly a recalibrating experience.
Watched the eclipse from Lake Buchanan in Texas, about 1.5 hours northwest of Austin. It was a spectacular day at a lake house with friends. The bluebonnets were extraordinary. Clouds and rain were threatening to ruin the experience but never interfered with the viewing. The three hour ride home was worth it.
It must have been heavenly 🌚 When’s the next one? Not until 2044 in the Lower 48 — Alaska gets one in 2033. If you’re willing to travel, you can see one in Iceland and Spain in 2026.
Where is the best place to see the solar eclipse in Spain 2026?
The town of Alcañiz, Spain, sits 50 km northeast of the centerline for the total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026, and statistically offers the best chance of clear skies on eclipse day. Totality in 2026 will be relatively brief all across Spain, and from Alcañiz it will last 1m24s . 🌚
We drove from So CT to Buffalo Sunday for an overnight stay. The daughter of my S.O. lives over the border in Canada about an hour from Buffalo, she drove down at the last minute & arrived just before the show started. I have not seen her in years, so despite the cloud cover limiting our view to a few fleeting glimpses of the celestial event, her presence there with us made it that much more special.
Thank you for sharing the show. Stuck here in Florida enjoying the best weather on the planet earth. I'm looking forward to experiencing an eclipse sometime around the year 3100 I think. :-) Billserle.com
It's STILL Florida, Bill! lol I was in Florida 30 years ago this month, and all I remember is heat, humidity, and alligators. No Governor DeDumbass, but still not my cup of iced tea!
Yep. First moved to Florida in 1956 when I was 18. Tolerated it better in 1961 when my bride and I put a window AC unit in our bedroom. Love AC. Lived in the Great Smoky Mountains without AC. 20 years. NJ with HVAC for 3. but have loved being back in North Florida since 2010. 😎
So glad for you to have had a chance to go Total, Greg and LB, and your friends/family! If it were me, I'd have Totally bought a t-shirt to commemorate the event, or maybe a mug or something?
Down here in the northwestern reaches of Virginia (NOT Northern Virginia), I spent two+ hours watching as from the lower right corner, the moon took its first bite of the "cookie," then traveled at an angle to the top left-hand side of said "cookie."
My entertainment was Total, though we never went dark nor did the temperature drop or the critters go cuckoo/cuckoo, things that I remember experiencing in the 2017 solar eclipse.
The real news is Putin's puppet didn't say he lost the 2020 election, nor has he dropped out of the 2024 race. In short, you didn't miss anything for having gone the Totality path!
This piece counts! Thanks for sharing pics of you and LB going great totality. Bill Nye was on some news shouting out, celebrating SCIENCE. This experience proved we’re not as divided as media and our enemies want us to believe. My fam watched the 90% from our widows’ walk. The temp dropped, the air was crisp. Beautiful communing with friends, family, science!!!
What do you mean you hadn't prepared your Tuesday column? I FULLY expected you to write about Totality today, and so you have! It sounds like it was well-worth the trip, and there's still snow on the ground?? Yikes, we were at 70 yesterday!
We had clear skies from about 10 in the morning, so we also got a good show at 94% coverage. I didn't hear any crickets, and the dogs didn't go nuts, but the temperature dropped about 10 degrees, you couldn't feel heat from the sun, and the light was very weird for a while. Certainly, better than the 2017 experience from the same place, clouds, clouds, clouds! And I'm going with your Sunday column for this one -- MAGA is now OVER!! Yay! 😜 Proud Boys: Stand back and fuck off! LOL
No big deal, really. I was busy reading Substacks. And I figured that if the Masons were going to take over the world in that 4 minutes, they wouldn't bother with Western Washington.
I got up early (for me) & traveled Westward across the Mississippi to reach the path of totality. Driving carefully through small, historic Arkansas towns laced w wild daffodil patches, state troopers and a few decrepit trailer parks festooned w tRump flags; I came upon the Jacksonport State Park on the White River & decided to make that my viewing location. The small crowd was reverent as we sat beside the River watching the moon’s encroachment. I walked between the forrest & river trying to record the reaction of the plethora of birds & also trying to avoid the burgeoning poison ivy that keeps people out of the wild. I gasped as the moon approached totality and saw a twinkling planet (Venus, or Jupiter conjunct Uranus?) and felt a swelling of emotion. Afterwards, we all packed up, exchanging pleasantries, & girded for the long drive back but feeling so awestruck it didn’t seem long at all. Check totality off the bucket list. PS it was a rather hot and sunny day, almost 80 degrees then, during eclipse, dropped to a pleasant 60 for a little over three minutes
Thanks for this report, Amy. It sounds like a lovely and worthwhile experience. An eclipse is something, god knows, that should be able to bring everyone together. Even the MAGAs.
A friend of mine is a pharmacist at Publix and when asked how she was getting along Monday morning, her response was that people were driving her nuts by going bananas when told that there were no eclipse glasses at the pharmacy nor were there any in the store. The public didn’t want to hear that so were taking it out on the employees. People lost their minds over this; ranging from the ridiculous(MTG or the Rapture)to those who would chase seeing it from altitude. Bless their hearts.
Oh, how I would have loved to have been there with you and LB.
I adore the two of you ...and I have years of adoration and respect and gratitude accumulated.
Thank you for this lovely little brief.
Love, StacyO 💕
Thanks, StacyO! One day we'll have to have a live event...
I have always hoped so. I will fly in ...and I'm easy to vet. Lol
It was spooky, don't you think? The metallic light just before total darkness and a 360 degree dawn as the light returned was certainly a recalibrating experience.
A little spooky because of the birds. It didn't get as dark as I was expecting, which speaks to the power of the sun.
Exactly!!
Watched the eclipse from Lake Buchanan in Texas, about 1.5 hours northwest of Austin. It was a spectacular day at a lake house with friends. The bluebonnets were extraordinary. Clouds and rain were threatening to ruin the experience but never interfered with the viewing. The three hour ride home was worth it.
It was worth it, indeed.
I'm so glad you saw it, Judy!
It must have been heavenly 🌚 When’s the next one? Not until 2044 in the Lower 48 — Alaska gets one in 2033. If you’re willing to travel, you can see one in Iceland and Spain in 2026.
I’m shooting for Spain in 2026 💃🏻
Do you to know yet precisely where in España?
Where is the best place to see the solar eclipse in Spain 2026?
The town of Alcañiz, Spain, sits 50 km northeast of the centerline for the total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026, and statistically offers the best chance of clear skies on eclipse day. Totality in 2026 will be relatively brief all across Spain, and from Alcañiz it will last 1m24s . 🌚
I think there's one in Egypt that's sooner? Seeing it over the pyramids would be amazing.
After the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026, these are the dates and locations for the next total solar eclipses:
Aug. 2, 2027: Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, British Indian Ocean Territory - Space.com
We drove from So CT to Buffalo Sunday for an overnight stay. The daughter of my S.O. lives over the border in Canada about an hour from Buffalo, she drove down at the last minute & arrived just before the show started. I have not seen her in years, so despite the cloud cover limiting our view to a few fleeting glimpses of the celestial event, her presence there with us made it that much more special.
I'm glad to hear that, Thomas. Hopefully you waited out and had less traffic than I did!
Thank you for sharing the show. Stuck here in Florida enjoying the best weather on the planet earth. I'm looking forward to experiencing an eclipse sometime around the year 3100 I think. :-) Billserle.com
It's STILL Florida, Bill! lol I was in Florida 30 years ago this month, and all I remember is heat, humidity, and alligators. No Governor DeDumbass, but still not my cup of iced tea!
Yep. First moved to Florida in 1956 when I was 18. Tolerated it better in 1961 when my bride and I put a window AC unit in our bedroom. Love AC. Lived in the Great Smoky Mountains without AC. 20 years. NJ with HVAC for 3. but have loved being back in North Florida since 2010. 😎
I've been to Florida a few times, and I've always enjoyed it more than I was expecting to. I get why people want to move there.
Florida is full of miracle and wonder...
It’s TUESDAY🎉☀️
Hahah! perfect.
So glad for you to have had a chance to go Total, Greg and LB, and your friends/family! If it were me, I'd have Totally bought a t-shirt to commemorate the event, or maybe a mug or something?
Down here in the northwestern reaches of Virginia (NOT Northern Virginia), I spent two+ hours watching as from the lower right corner, the moon took its first bite of the "cookie," then traveled at an angle to the top left-hand side of said "cookie."
My entertainment was Total, though we never went dark nor did the temperature drop or the critters go cuckoo/cuckoo, things that I remember experiencing in the 2017 solar eclipse.
The real news is Putin's puppet didn't say he lost the 2020 election, nor has he dropped out of the 2024 race. In short, you didn't miss anything for having gone the Totality path!
I'm glad you saw it, Lynell. My family watched from our backyard, 91 percent coverage...still amazing to behold.
You are extremely forgiven!
Thank you!
This piece counts! Thanks for sharing pics of you and LB going great totality. Bill Nye was on some news shouting out, celebrating SCIENCE. This experience proved we’re not as divided as media and our enemies want us to believe. My fam watched the 90% from our widows’ walk. The temp dropped, the air was crisp. Beautiful communing with friends, family, science!!!
Thanks, Sue!
What do you mean you hadn't prepared your Tuesday column? I FULLY expected you to write about Totality today, and so you have! It sounds like it was well-worth the trip, and there's still snow on the ground?? Yikes, we were at 70 yesterday!
We had clear skies from about 10 in the morning, so we also got a good show at 94% coverage. I didn't hear any crickets, and the dogs didn't go nuts, but the temperature dropped about 10 degrees, you couldn't feel heat from the sun, and the light was very weird for a while. Certainly, better than the 2017 experience from the same place, clouds, clouds, clouds! And I'm going with your Sunday column for this one -- MAGA is now OVER!! Yay! 😜 Proud Boys: Stand back and fuck off! LOL
The good news is, what I was going to write about I can write about next week. Corruption apparently is evergreen...
I DO feel a shift in energy, so...we'll see.
"Stand back and fuck off." Ha! Perfect!
our clouds didn't even darken. Our area got 19% of totality, but the clouds said "we don't care."
Oh, that's too bad. I was surprised at how bright it still was even at 90 percent. That was the biggest shock, really.
No big deal, really. I was busy reading Substacks. And I figured that if the Masons were going to take over the world in that 4 minutes, they wouldn't bother with Western Washington.
The first eclipse i witnessed sacred me and made my dog spot howl back in 12000 bc while wandering the Serengity.
Yesterday i was tied up geting my 12th Mohs surgery.
I hope you're feeling ok, Cal.
I got up early (for me) & traveled Westward across the Mississippi to reach the path of totality. Driving carefully through small, historic Arkansas towns laced w wild daffodil patches, state troopers and a few decrepit trailer parks festooned w tRump flags; I came upon the Jacksonport State Park on the White River & decided to make that my viewing location. The small crowd was reverent as we sat beside the River watching the moon’s encroachment. I walked between the forrest & river trying to record the reaction of the plethora of birds & also trying to avoid the burgeoning poison ivy that keeps people out of the wild. I gasped as the moon approached totality and saw a twinkling planet (Venus, or Jupiter conjunct Uranus?) and felt a swelling of emotion. Afterwards, we all packed up, exchanging pleasantries, & girded for the long drive back but feeling so awestruck it didn’t seem long at all. Check totality off the bucket list. PS it was a rather hot and sunny day, almost 80 degrees then, during eclipse, dropped to a pleasant 60 for a little over three minutes
Thanks for this report, Amy. It sounds like a lovely and worthwhile experience. An eclipse is something, god knows, that should be able to bring everyone together. Even the MAGAs.
A friend of mine is a pharmacist at Publix and when asked how she was getting along Monday morning, her response was that people were driving her nuts by going bananas when told that there were no eclipse glasses at the pharmacy nor were there any in the store. The public didn’t want to hear that so were taking it out on the employees. People lost their minds over this; ranging from the ridiculous(MTG or the Rapture)to those who would chase seeing it from altitude. Bless their hearts.
How interesting. I'd been worried about the glasses, but I found them all over, for free.