An attempt to find balance, nature, and groundedness in New York City... starting from a container garden on a terrace, high above the streets of Yorkville... during whatever time is left over after days of toiling away as a recovering BigLaw attorney at a BigFin institution.... Welcome to my little terrace in the quintessential urban jungle!
Shepherded the fam to Syracuse - to revisit old haunts, and, you may have heard, there was a little eclipsething going on, and Syracuse was in the path of totality!
We watched it at the Museum of Science & Technology - MOST Syracuse - which hosted a fun viewing event on their lawn, with a fantastic eclipse playlist! Of course, there was "Total Eclipse of the Heart," but also notables like "Final Countdown" and "Ring of Fire." So fantastic to get to experience it with other people, and in such a happening part of the city!
We had hard to come by eclipse glasses courtesy of Warby Parker and Nautilus Magazine, which organized a giveaway that I was lucky enough to win! (We supplemented with an old pair from the 2018 partial eclipse and a pair Sis recently got from the library.) First time for all of us to get to experience a total solar eclipse - and so meaningful to get to do it with octogenarian Papa Rooster and septuagenarian Mama Hen.
There were points at the beginning when the weather was clear, then clouds moved in intermittently. We still got to see some very clear views of the dark moon against the bright sun, and teeny slivers of crescent sun close to height of the eclipse.
The clouds obscured the corona, but we (and the rest of the crowd) were pretty stoked to experience night in the middle of the afternoon! My night-friendly phone camera doesn't do justice to the 10/11pm level darkness we saw (look how bright the lights of the museum building appear! only possible in contrast to how dark it was out!), and the drop in temperature we felt with it, which brightened incredibly quickly once totality was over - figuratively and literally so COOL!
And then the light returned.
Was it a little disappointing that we didn't get to see the corona and diamond ring effect? Sure, a bit; you win some, you lose some, but we got a better feel for it than if we had stayed home for the mere partial eclipse. So, overall, a fantastic experience! I thought it was worth the day off and the long drives and expensive hotel, especially since none of us will likely be around in 2079 when the next one comes to town.
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