Bonus Shot

Did anyone else forget about the solar eclipse last night?

I had gone up to our local overlook for an hour of quiet thinking and to shoot the sunset, but when I got up there, there was already quite a few people, some with tripods and long lenses, others with cell phones and little point & shoots.

Everyone was in jolly moods and the feel in the air was quite a festive one.

I don’t know if the feeling came from the close of a beautiful weekend, or from the local festival that our town had put on that afternoon.

There had been a beer garden.

But whatever the reason, folks were lining up on the wall that surrounded the overlook

and the parking spaces were filling up rapidly.

I have to admit, I was rather irked that the peaceful solitude I was looking for was being over run with

noisy kids and loud onlookers that seemed to know more than they really did.

And I still didn’t know why there were so many people at “my” spot.

So naturally, I started to eavesdrop.

It was only then that I learned about the eclipse about to take place.

Guess that explained the welder’s mask that was making the rounds amongst everyone gathered.

Truthfully, I wasn’t really in the mood for an eclipse, for some reason they just don’t invoke the “ooh’s” and “aww’s” that they do in other people.

I just wanted the sunset that I had come for.

But I guess an occasional eclipse doesn’t ruin the shot, either.

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