The Eclipse

We left about lunch time and headed up the mountain to Maggie and Fred's beautiful home and took our position for the next several hours - the huge deck overlooking the mountains.  There were lots of cars already parked on the side of the road waiting, but no real traffic as we drove the few miles there.

What a great view of the mountains.

We were in the direct line of totality and we were not disappointed.  There are no words to describe what we experienced.

 I never did  get any good pictures, to hard to see to take a picture but I really was too interested  in just watching the different stages.

It started about 1:00 and around 2:15 the crickets and birds started talking.  At 2:38 everything went black. 

Then the there was light and the animals started back up, including a rooster saying good morning. 

Fred had his telescope set up and we could see 441and the traffic.

There was barely any traffic until 4:00 when everything changed.  The road became what was predicted - gridlock.  I heard from Tara that it took them 3 hours to go 15 miles.  We waited until 8:00 and the road was still jammed up. It took 15 minutes to go the short distance ( 1 mile), and then it was time for bed.

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