Solar Eclipse 2017

I was pretty excited for the eclipse yesterday! Unfortunately, I didn’t get any of the safety glasses before they sold out, so I knew I would mainly have to watch online. Still, I wanted to be outside and soak up the dual energies of the sun and moon. I prepped some water to take outside with me to charge as well:

I drew the moon over the sun and wrote some intentions on my water bottles, and then placed them on a tray:

The coverage from out west was incredible!

Ohio was not in the path of totality and Columbus was only going to get 86% coverage. Still, I figured the sky would darken noticeably.

Here are my water bottles at 2:00, 2:30 (peak of coverage), and at 3:00.

That was a bit underwhelming, so here are two photos from Columbus that my news station posted:

I live about 40 minutes from the city in a rural area. I can see seven farms with red barns from my yard and that is a field of soy plants right next door!

Since my eclipse photos are so boring, I thought I would show you the soy plants up close:

Here are four of the seven farms I can see from my yard. (The other three are a little too far away to show well in a photo.)

I also got a few photos in my yard while I was waiting for the eclipse. My tomato plants are doing nicely and there must be 100 green cherry tomatoes on it (and 1 ripe one!)

This yellow heirloom tomato is almost ready to pick:

Here is a weed that I think is beautiful!

Our pears still aren’t ready to be picked:

We did harvest the basil though because my indoor basil plant needed to be cut back and I wanted to make pesto.

Here is the indoor plant with the outdoor basil and some tomatoes my mom got at a farm stand:

The tomatoes are so pretty!

My mom cut the basil plant back:

I made oil free pesto using an avocado for the fat:

The pesto was really good, and we made sandwiches and pasta for dinner with it! I will post the recipe for the pesto later this week. Both vegan cheeses shown (Mozzarella and grated Parmesan) are from Follow Your Heart and are very good!