Partial Eclipse

[ndrosen]

I didn't go chasing the eclipse to see totality, so I had to make do with a partial eclipse in Alexandria. I didn't stare at the Sun -- well, not much -- but I did puncture a hole in a card, and hold it over some white paper on my windowsill. I saw a crescent piece of sunlight in the shadow cast by the card, although I'm not sure how much of that was due to the Moon's shadow, and how much to the angle of the card and the shape of the hole, as fiddling with the card made the crescent rounder. A few minutes after the supposed greatest percentage of shadow, I noticed that it had grown much darker outside, but that turned out to be the Sun passing behind a cloud.

Oh, and coming home this evening, I met a human couple walking a fourteen month old mini-goldendoodle, who proceeded to lick my hand.