THINGS ARE: LOOKING UP!
Well, here’s a thought. Especially important this week.
LOOK UP!
Mama has noticed that sightseeers in Rome or just about anywhere tend to look straight ahead or down (at what they might be stepping on, as cobblestones can throw one a curve, whatever that is, and of course there might be doggie poo) or at their cell phones (!) and if they looked UP more often, they would find surprising marvels in the architecture and roofs and sky, such as those swirling birdies that make solid patterns as they swoop.
Mama looked up one day after years in Rome and saw a deer on the top of a building! She has passed that church for years and never noticed the animal as part of a cross!
And of cousrse, everyone will be looking UP today, non?
I’m lucky. I see everything and anything I wish. So cool.
Have a lovely perfect week full of adventures, but especially full of kindness and love. Eclipses are supposed to bring anthros together.
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We were able to see the eclipse…not a total, but at 99%. And it was pretty cool!
Oh, Ernie, you are so lucky but I’ll bet you were taking a little snooze at the time. We kitties could care less, right? Especially when a bit elderly and snoozy….
I tend to watch where I’m walking but I love looking UP as well and noticing details of things around me especially when we’re on a trip to a new place. I’m sending you an email with a few photos from yesterday when we had the eclipse here – it was wonderful….memorable….amazing.
Hugs, Pam
Oh, chouette, how wonderful to have photos, merci! So wish we had seen it.
I totally agree, Loulou. Anthros don’t look up enough and they definitely look at their phones way too much. Adventures, kindness and love eclipse all.
How beautifully said! Merci.
We were at 80 to 90 percent here but because of cloud cover we were not able to observe. Outside just looked like a very gray day that brightened slightly when the eclipse ended. In 2017 we had a partial on a sunny day. There was really weird light in the forest and I photographed it and posted. The street cat we adopted the day after helped curate the pics, though with some feline sass. I named her Ultraviolet; I had already chosen that name before I knew about the eclipse though.
Oh, what a great name for a kitty! Maybe she turned lilac under the eclipse light!
I tend to look down so I don’t step in cat vomit or trip on a cat. 🙂
Ha ha those kitties need a MOVE OVER class!
We had clouds and rain this morning, but about 10 am it cleared up, so we had a great view of the eclipse from my own backyard. Even as the sun was probably three-fifths covered there was still bright sunshine enough to cast sharp shadows. Two of the kitties were outdoors and they stayed close to where I was sitting (which they don’t always do). As it got closer to totality the quality of the light changed…kind of like if you took a gray filter and put it over the camera lens. You could still see color – the grass was green, but it was a strange kind of dimming, silvery light. Even when there was only a sliver of the sun still showing it was like this. Then when totality was reached it did get dark. You could see a few stars -or probably a planet There had been a few birds chirping al along, but I’m not sure they stopped when it got “total” because the neighbors started shooting off fireworks. (In “primitive” cultures the people thought a monster was swallowing the sun so they beat drums and shouted and built fires to scare off the monster. If that’s what the fireworks were for, it worked…but it sure takes an amazingly long time to go through the whole phase from first touch to last touch. You are better off watching a time lapse…it’s hard (for me anyway) to sit still that long. (I don’t even go to movies any more )
Once the sun started to reemerge, the cats got up and walked off on their own business. Did they know it was going to be all right ?
The silvery quality of the ight carried over even as the sun began to emerge.
I have seen partial eclipses before but when totality was reached I was amazed that you could really see the corona-the flare around the blacked out disk of the sun. That was when you took off the glasses because otherwise you couldn’t see what was going on. It wasn’t pitch dark, but definitely darker than twilight. Pretty amazing.
OH MERCI MERCI for this account! We did see it on tv but it’s not the same at all. LOVE the silvery light on everything. Mama remembers a tv eclipse long ago that literally turned everything silver-grey. Maybe it was a movie version…thank you for your wonderful report!
Angel Loulou, we are traveling to 100% coverage.
I recall another solar eclipse when I was a child, but not sure if that was a total or partial.
Oh, do tell us what you “see” or don’t.
Imagine that crowd in the pandemic, LOL!!!
Well, at least we can gather this way if we want!
It was raining on my way home from work…not a good start to the eclipse day…
Mama often thinks about crowds now and whether to go through or in them, but THEY are still taking masks with them just in case. Lots of coughing going on around here….