My youngest daughter was the only one of my relatives around at the time of the solar eclipse's peak performance this afternoon. I loved experiencing the phenomenon with Kerra. She made a safe eclipse-viewing instrument for herself and one for me, too. Through a pinprick hole on the top of the apparatus, the light came through and made a tiny reflection of the sun on the bottom of the cardboard cereal box. By the time the eclipse reached its height (sun coverage was 72.65% here in Waterloo County), the small circle of light in our viewer had changed from a perfectly round sun into a fat crescent moon shape. Fascinating! "O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder consider all the worlds thy hands have made...then sings my soul, 'How great Thou art'!"
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