Ecliptic Shadows

Wikkipedia:
The ecliptic is the circular path on the celestial sphere that the Sun appears to follow over the course of a year; it is the basis of the ecliptic coordinate system. The term also refers to the plane of this path, which is coplanar with Earth's orbit around the Sun (and hence the Sun's apparent orbit around Earth).  


So I'm misusing the word ecliptic, but you know what I mean, and it reminds me of happy happy times with Cynthia at the Ecliptic Brewing brewpub in Portland.


As you can see, I was playing pickleball at the time of the (partial) eclipse in Bellingham. It didn't get very dark, and we only stopped playing for a short time to view the sun and the strange shadows. I took my family to eastern Washington to see the last full eclipse in 1979. We were out in the open, and didn't see any shadows.


My son reminded me recently that I'd said I hoped to be still standing for the next eclipse! I didn't make the same wish this time!  

Edited 8/22/2017
I just discovered that there will be a total eclipse over the eastern half of the US in 2024:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_visible_from_the_United_States#/media/File:SE2024Apr08T.png