Total Eclipse, Baby

We all went to a place that we know and love that was also in the path of totality for the solar eclipse.  Those who had done so in the past waxed eloquently on how surreal the phenomena is.  The sky darkens from all directions, a 360 degree sunset.  Wild life is confused.  The temperature plummets for a few minutes and there is an eeriness that is indescribable.  And they were completely dead on right.  What I couldn't picture is how it is different from night, other than the timing, and that is what you had to be there to experience.  The other things, like the birds being completely frantic and confused, the cicadas revving up in the middle of the day, the coyotes howling, all of that was odd but not exactly life changing.  The strangeness of the light, how it disappeared and reappeared, that is what is hard to describe and ever so memorable.  Hope we can have a do over in 2024.