CaDiva and packed up the Highlander with a picnic and cameras and headed north. We found a rest stop north of Ames which looked likely.
Of course, we overshot the primo eclipse watching spot. So we backed up, way up. This seriously freaked the housekeeping lady at the rest stop. She came out and asked me, "Are you looking for someone." I answered clueless, "Yeah, the full lunar eclipse."
She was tickled finally, after she realized we weren't some troublemakers, because she wanted to see it too. As we sat in our parking place, popping out every ten minutes or so to snap pictures, we started to gather a crowd. One little girl was going to call her grandma, who lives way far away, but she can take pictures. Several were amazed at the pictures I was getting with my little Nikon.
CaDiva and I noshed and snapped and noshed some more. But here is what we ended up with.
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Super Moon rising over Iowa
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Just a little shadow off to one side.
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| And so it begins |
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| Just a bit more |
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| It is getting serious now |
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It is almost half now - and moving fast
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It reminds me of an outhouse door now.
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| Just a bit more...getting hard to focus the camera at this point. |
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Oh, it took me about 20 shots to even get this one. I just couldn't hold the camera still.
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And, an hour later, it was over.
Fortunately, CaDiva eventually stopped laughing at my attempt to take a selfie with a Nikon in a front seat. It wasn't pretty.
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