solar eclipse

anne came over this afternoon, mostly to socialize but also because I wanted to give her a winter coat that doesn't fit me.

She got here around two, and adrian_turtle, cattitude, and I went downstairs with a pinhole camera. We chatted with a few neighbors who were also looking at, or for, the partial solar eclipse*; then snacked on cherry tomatoes fresh off the vine before going to the back yard to look at tree shadows. The leaves were close enough together that we didn't get very good crescent shadows; the pinhole camera placed on a table was better. The sunlight on Adrian's straw hat created tiny crescents on her face, a cool effect that the camera didn't pick up (meaning she didn't get to see it).

We went inside a bit after maximum eclipse and socialized a little longer; Anne left so she wouldn't be going through Downtown Crossing at the height of the rush hour, and we did some more moving-related stuff.


*I think the maximum here was about 62%.