Searches for “eclipse hurt eyes” jumped 170% in the last 24 hours after the eclipse yesterday evening. Ouch. I hope those people didn’t stare too long and that no permanent damage was done.

The sky was cloudy where I live, but I still managed to get a photo, even if it was only with my phone as the clouds briefly allowed the sun through. So much for my plans to use eclipse glasses with my compact camera.

Instead, I spent a nice evening with my wife, our pets and a neighbour who called over for a chat. Lovely!

As expected, Facebook is full of amazing photos of the eclipse, but I love this.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh is a software developer at Automattic and WordPress plugin developer. He posts photos at In Photos and can also be found on Mastodon. View more posts