wow, what an evening.  on the way to finding a place to watch the eclipse, we saw–elephants!  i kid you not.  must be a circus in town.  then we found a dark farm field to watch the whole thing for a couple of hours.  all the clouds cleared out in time and it was astounding.  then we heard a pack of coyotes howling right across the field from us–i suppose at the moon!  we sort of got going then.

of course all my phone shots just look like a tiny blob of light, it figures.  but it was a beautiful light show, so surreal.  here are not very good shots of the beginning.  somehow a huge glowing red orb of light hanging in the sky was invisible to my poor excuse for a camera.  but anyway we got to see it with our own eyes.