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Through a kitchen colander darkly.
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It is sooooo cold when the moon cuts in to steal a slow dance with the sun.
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While not in the path of totality, these pictures taken at max eclipse for my geography, show the dancing crescents in sunlight through trees casting shadows on rocks.
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I know the science but solar eclipses are still eerie magic.