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While Brent and Jesi were in town for our wedding, they rented a motorcycle and we all rode down to Big Sur on a nice little day trip. I was on my Honda Pacific Coast, as per usual. Brent rented a Kawasaki Ninja that they found to be a good bike.
We went out to a ranch outside of Dallas, Oregon to watch the Great Oregon Eclipse with Jesi and Brent. There were about 80 or so people gathered together for a grand time watching the eclipse.
This was easily one of the top five experiences I’ve had with a natural phenomena. The sky progressively became darker, the wind became still, and the air became cold.
Everything began to grow dark. There were several high altitude aircraft circling overhead that started heading east along the path of the eclipse as soon as totality began.
Just prior to totality, we noticed these little half moon suns under the trees. We also witness the shimmering effect on white surfaces around us just as the eclipse reached totality.
Here it comes!
Black hole sun. What an amazing phenomena.
Total eclipse of the heart.
We went out to the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival with Jesi, Brent, and Parker to check out some flowers and some old steam engines.
There are zillions of tulips here.
So many tulips everywhere!
These tulips are almost black.
One of the old steam tractors ambling through the tulips.
Several of the old steam tractors lined up and ready to go.
So many pretty little tulips in these fields!
Here’s a video of the tulips swaying in the breeze.