What a beautiful day to observe a solar eclipse! The temperature here in Texas was in the 60s, and the sky was clear. I made the word “eclipse” by poking holes in black card stock, essentially making a series of pinhole cameras. I held this above a white sheet of card stock to get the images of the moon moving between us and the sun.

We had some wind, so I found the best way to get my pictures was to use a branch to keep the white paper still on our mailbox, and fold the edges of the black paper to keep it rigid. I also snapped some pictures of the shadows of the trees, which made their own “pinholes” between layers of leaves.

Alas, we did not experience totality at our location. The picture above was taken when totality was predicted to occur.