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It was epic. we had high clouds that were worrisome, but only marginally affected the eclipse. About 20 minutes after the start the decline in light started to become noticeable. Using my pinhole viewer, i was able to track the moon moving over the disc of the sun. An hour in, at 3:00, the darkness started to grow quickly. Watching through the glasses was fun but when totality came and we could take off our glasses was amazing, shocking, epic! The clouds blocked a little of the aura so that flowing cotton candy look as seen in some pictures was absent, but it was there and a few flares were visible in red. Younger eyes would have helped. There was sort of sunset colors all around the horizon and the sky was a dark hazy blue; the clouds again? but on the ground it was dark, night. Too quickly the sun popped over the edge and within a minute it was daylight; though the shadows remained different and the colors seemed more vivid. I got to see this once and wish i could see it again. We've had a couple partial eclipses over the years, where there was some darkening of the daylight, but nothing like this.
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