Last night, we built a big fire outside and stayed up for the eclipse. It was cold, but the eclipse was spectacular.

One of the most amazing things was the light change, which sounds obvious but was surprising to me and probably not something you’d notice as much if you weren’t out here in the middle of nowhere.

When we first went outside at about 10:00 (about an hour before anything started — I apparently failed to factor in that we aren’t on Pacific time right now), the moon was very bright, and it was almost like it was daylight. You could easily see out 100 feet or more.

By the time, we came inside at about 1am, when the moon was fully eclipsed, it was very dark. You couldn’t see the house or the slab from our greenhouse. We needed a flashlight to walk back to the house. Also, the appearance of stars over this period, as it got darker, was remarkable.

Quite a fun experience with no “city lights” to contend with.