It did not get dark here but the quality of the sunlight changed, the temperature dropped slightly, and a breeze kicked up.
Photo: holding iPhone up to the lens of the eclipse glasses.
This chipmunk was motionless for a couple of minutes.
This photo was at about halfway. There's a thumbnail sliver to the right of the sun
Crescent-shaped shadows on the patio. I wish I'd remembered to bring out the colander.
My sister and I remembered an eclipse when we were kids. I looked it up: July 20, 1963. Our dad made a viewer out of a cardboard box (no eclipse glasses then). He projected the crescent onto the inside wall of the garage —it was about 3” — and traced around it. That image was there forevermore. (Like a prehistoric cave drawing.)
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On Monday evening I went to the Millburn School District board meeting. The board is reconsidering participation in the statewide Rebecca Caudill Award , a program in which 4th-8th graders vote on books to be recognized. Last month ONE board member said that ONE book on LAST YEAR'S list was "too political" and wanted to discontinue it all. He got three other board members to vote with him. [Apparently they did not read the book, nor did they discuss it.] Decision is pending.
The audience at the meeting were all opposed to that action and all in favor of continuing participation. Photo: with my friend and colleague Deb, librarian at ZBTHS and president of the school librarians assn. in Illinois. And of course I took photos of the paper quilts hung in the hallway!
Left: the book.
In the studio: the hollyhocks wall hanging is finished! I can check that off the to-do list and contemplate starting something new. Linking up with Wednesday Wait Loss Midweek Makers
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ReplyDeleteI read "A Gentleman in Moscow" this past week. I started "Witches Steeped in Gold" but I just couldn't get into it when I learned before page 60 that the sister's were destined to kill the other. I'm now reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude". An interesting multi-generation story And next up is "Boy Erased" a memoir of a young man. I'm always interested in the lives of people different from me. Difference makes the world go 'round :-)
ReplyDeleteTo the right of the Eclipse is Pluto! Most people missed Jupiter which was on the left side.
Happy stitching Nann.
We got a collander photo! That was fun! I have to admit I didn't realize that it is National Library Week, but I do love our public library. They offer so many services these days, and not just books (although I read many, many library books). Thank you for being a librarian for all your readers, Nann! Your hollyhocks wall-hanging is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWe only had 92 % totality, but it got dark gray and the temp dropped
ReplyDelete8 degrees here under light cloud cover...
I love your wall hanging--such lovely colors -- nice work hugs, Julierose
Quiltdivajulie - we were at 97.7% and it did not get totally dark here but, like you, it dropped in temp, a breeze blew in, and the light quality changed dramatically. Love the story of the childhood eclipse.
ReplyDeleteThe eclipse, at least here, was pretty much a non-event. It simply looked cloudy outside (we didn't have the glasses so didn't see it happening). A lot of hoopla over nothing it seems.
ReplyDeleteFunny how people will decide a book (or a movie) is a terrible thing but they can't make their argument because they've never read/seen it.
love the hollyhocks...my grandmother had them in her garden....
ReplyDeleteLovely hollyhocks~
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear your town is suffering the attentions of the anti-education gang! And the hollyhocks are great, one of my favorite garden flowers. I wonder if it's too late to start seeds this year?
ReplyDeleteCeci