Did anyone else look down during the eclipse? Amazing

[cbelt3]

pinholes in the leaves act as pinhole projection cameras, projecting an image of the occluded sun onto the ground. It's magical...

[Bill in NC]

same thing with the bushes in front of our steps

[GuyGene]

miley-shocked003: miley-shocked003: Noooooo!! You were REALLY able to see what LIVES and BREATHES at your place! That stuff is ALIVE!

miley-laughing001:

I don't see nuttin'.

[lost in space]

That's amazing. I was surprise how the air turned cooler. It was different from a normal drop in temperature from the the sun going behind a cloud, or setting. The air felt different from anything I've experienced. We had 92% coverage, and I was surprised how much there still was from the 8 % that was showing. The character of the light was different too.

[Grateful11]

Got another uploaded to Tinypic.

[ztirffritz]

Did anyone see shadow snakes?

[NewtonMP2100]

ztirffritz wrote:
Did anyone see shadow snakes?

.....on a plane.....on a plane.....

[Spiff]

Those are shadow lines or shadow snakes. No one knows exactly whey they happen, but they appear 10-30 seconds before totality and then reappear after totality ends for 10-30 seconds. They move and writhe in unison. I have a video on my phone of faint shadow lines.

[Lew Zealand]

I suspect they are individual shadows cast from the sun peeking through the valleys on the limb of the moon shortly before and after totality. And I'm probably wrong.

[Lew Zealand]

Or they could be those same beams of moon valley sunlight passing thorough individual thermal columns in the Earth's atmosphere, which distort them in a uniform fashion.