My 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Experience
My 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Experience
I had no idea I would be as amazed during our 1 min and 6 second total eclipse event yesterday. Actually I was more then amazed at this once in a life time experience. If you weren’t in the path of totality or didn’t get a chance to see this incredible event, I wanted to share some of the images I was able to capture. My photography skills do not do the actual eclipse justice, but my camera did it’s best.
My 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Experience
More excitement in Cornelia
I say my 2017 total Solar Eclipse experience but it was really all of our’s. We actually made a day of it and took the kids out of school. I figured this event was worth it, and they were learning something too. A chance to witness this once in our lifetime experience together as a family. We didn’t have far to travel to see 100% totality, so we drove up to a little town north of Duke Manor Farm called Cornelia, about 40 mins away. If we stayed put we would have seen the eclipse at 99% totality. The 40 minute drive was worth the opportunity for the moon to completely shadow the sun and have that brief moment of darkness at 2:30 in the afternoon.
We found the perfect spot to wait. The park has decommissioned trains ( it was an old train depot) and enough entertainment….and water for the kids to play and have fun. While we were there an actual train passed by which was a double bonus for the kids.
And just like that ( it really happened that quickly), the moon passed over the sun, the crickets stopped chirping ( which was really kinda weird)….and the sun came back out. In all it’s glory.
I hope you enjoyed my 2017 total Solar Eclipse experience. Did you see the eclipse? Were you just as amazed as I was?
grateful
to witness this incredible event with my family
Your photos are wonderful, Laura I was so excited for the eclipse..here (NM) it was to be 73%…not bad..and with work and school, we had to stay put…but, of course, in the Sunshine Capital of the World, we had rain and clouds…oh well…it was exciting anyway! 🙂
Your pictures are wonderful Laura. We didn’t really have anything to see
here in England. But we were all thinking of you guys.It looked a lovely place where you went. It’s something you & your family will never forget.
Big Ben stopped chiming at noon at the Houses of Parliament yesterday. It won’t chime again for 4 years as it’s being repaired so that was our big news story.
Shirley, I heard about your news with Big Ben, 4 years seems like a long time to fix a clock but then too it’s an awful big one! Hope you are having a great week!
thank you for sharing the pictures! We live outside of Seattle and so my daughter put her phone in the garage and we watched Oregon live and each phase of the eclipse we would go outside with our glasses and look at how ours looked at the same time as Oregon. It was a fun time with our Grandchildren and family..
oh I love how you were able to coordinate the viewing. It was a spectacular sight indeed.
I also got too see the Eclipse in its totality here in at my office in Missouri. It was just amazing. Out of this world!! LOL. I really was especially amazed by the darkness and then within seconds back to light. A lot of people have described it as eerie. So glad you got to experience it with your kids! Mine are all grown and in different places, but I was comforted knowing we were all staring up at the sky at the exact same time.
it was out of this world! 🙂 I think how quickly it turned to dusk and twilight was a bit eerie for people.
Love the pictures, are amazing. Thank you for share them
thanks Mayleen!
Taking the kids out of the classroom for this event was more than they could ever gain in the classroom….there are no words to describe this experience…We had about 95% totality here.
Love Tallulah Falls!…I did not take actual photos of the Eclipse…was afraid I would mess up my lens…love your photos!
wasn’t it amazing? I did’nt realize just how incredible it would be until it was actually happening.
Hi there! We pulled the kids out of school as well and drove 5 hours to Lavonia, GA to be in the path of totality. Well worth it!! This was our experience: https://lifewithstinkyandblinky.blogspot.com/2017/08/life-lately-and-great-american-solar.html
There are just some things you can’t re-create in a classroom no matter how hard you try.