i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
11:06 PM: the moon is not a mass of incandescent gas but we love it anyway
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sven & i were able to watch the eclipse from beginning to end! i was afraid i was going to have to drive eastward past the mountains to get cloudless skies tonight, but through some miracle the weather cooperated beautifully and we probably had the best viewing of anywhere in a 3-hour radius. we were out at the top of powell butte till the gates closed at 8 p.m., which gave us a huge city panorama as the moon was swallowed by the earth's shadow, turning chocolate brown, red and eventually orange. then we watched from our front porch, huddled in blankets, as the moon shrugged off its dark robe and shone brightly again. i love eclipses! now having seen two in a relatively short amount of time (the next one doesn't happen till 2007!) i'm surprised but pleased to note that each one is different.
and then, because it was the full moon, we ate freshly hardboiled eggs and made a wish.