My boss called me when it started, and told me it was visible from the parking lot at work. I went on down, but couldn't spot it; he might not have been taking the ambient light in that neighborhood into account, or maybe it was blocked by a building.

But it was waning (is that the word?) as I drove home. I kept looking at it, and finally pulled over to try to get a shot with my tiny camera and rather sad command of "digital photography" (and what a funny term that is, now that I think of it—as if we took pictures with our fingers).

No dice, of course. But I'm sure someone's getting a good picture of it, somewhere. There are people out there with good equipment, who know what they're doing.

So I just came home, fired up the laptop, and walked outside to admire the moon every now and then from my driveway.

That's the reason I bought this house, you know: the view of the moon from this street.

I hope I can still find a way to look at it after I've left. Do they have the moon at night in other cities? Can one see it from a condominium? I just want to be prepared, you know.

Tonight, the moon was, indeed, the North Wind's Cookie.

UPDATE: Aha! Here we go! Eclipse pix!

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