Images of totality I captured during the total solar eclipse, August 21, 2017,
Madras, Oregon. The flash washed me out in the selfie shot, but I like the "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" tone overall. The skies might be out of a
John Martin painting. In spite of the doomsday forecasts of media and government, matters associated with the event mostly rolled smoothly. The night before the occultation, I missed my shuttle bus and walked at night up into the hills, where I had my camp (of sorts). Crickets shrilled in the sagebrush, beneath the vast rush of the Milky Way.
On my return, I did get stuck in nine hours' worth of traffic, on what would normally have been a two-hour drive. Someone driving past me the other way, going east, taunted me with "there's a hundred-mile traffic jam in front of you!" The slow drive did give me the opportunity to witness some samples of landscape one normally wouldn't have time in; but it was tedious as well.
On the way back, I also stopped for dinner in
Warm Springs, Oregon. I hadn't been in that area in general in central Oregon, for a long spell.
Your journey for the solar eclipse must have been interesting with all it entailed, a real adventure. The washed-out selfie is OK, it has a freaky look to it. The State Hospital in Salem, Oregon (One flew over the cuckoo's Nest) looks amazing, in size and sheer presents. Have you seen it by any chance?
ReplyDeleteNo, I haven't seen the State Hospital building in Salem, Ray. I passed by the State Capitol building when I was there a couple weeks ago, but oddly have never been inside the place. I've seen the movie of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" a couple times, and read Kesey's novel for the first time a year or two ago. I was apprehensive about the traffic problems and so on, relating to the eclipse, but as with most such things it turned out O.K. I'm glad you liked the account.
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