North Texas was lucky enough to have partly cloudy skies on April 8, 2024 so the total solar eclipse was visible for a couple of hours on a beautiful spring day. Giving all who saw it a little bit of a chill despite the typical Texas spring temperatures.
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| The progressing eclipses projected using a telescope. |
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| Leaves create crescent highlights of the eclipse. |
I got a chance to take some photographs of Cliburn President and CEO Jacque Marquis playing the piano as a group was invited by Adelaide Leavens to the new Keith House to site piano placement and seating bench arrangements for future performances. The space, located in the Edwards Ranch under a grove of huge oaks and pecans, creates a serene enclave in what is becoming a very busy part of the westside of Fort Worth.
With the passing of the yearly Persiade Meteor shower, the one frame I made of a meteor was in the North Woods of Ontario Canada, near Chapleau. In the deep, dark woods with thousands of mosquitos lurking I put my camera on the ground and used a flashlight to bring some color in the trees as the Milky Way framed between the tree tops. The exposure lasting up to half a minute gave me a chance at getting a frame or two with a streak from a passing speck of space dust or a pebble. Low and behold on the computer it shows up.
Headed to the lake for a quick windsurf session, but found the wind had raised a bit of chop on the water that was making the waves pitch over as they rolled onto shore in a rather magical fashion. Put a DJI Osmos in the water to catch a few pictures of the waves, just a little difficult to time the tube with the shutter lag involved with these cameras.
Precipitation in in Texas is a little on the rare side to begin with. To get the combination with cod temperatures is even less frequent. Since all that has to combine to get what most people would consider winter weather, North Texas is really rather sparse in that category. When it does happen it usually is the worst combination. For the past few days we have had thunder sleet, freezing rain, and a heavy glazing of ice just to make roads impassable, tree branches break and everyone just a little stir crazy.
Alfie the Yorkie does what he wants, because that is what kids do. When it comes to playing he is all kid. After a long day of exploring, demands to come and get in the car are answered with the creaking sounds of crunching on a found plastic bottle and playing keep away from anyone trying to coral the little monster in the last warm rays of a setting sun on an unseasonably warm fall day.
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