Saw a partial via a pinhole camera… It got a little gloomy, but that was about all… Very cool!!!
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Did you wave ‘hi’ when you drove past me, down 65?
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I came through champaign so I could pick up my daughter en route.
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Carbondale, IL had a perfect sky, so when the totality hit you could see the orange flares, unlike what was shown for Mazatlan, various places in Texas, etc. You could hear the crowd registered how special that was, even more than the cheering in other places.
Thank you, AP live stream!
I was outside between when it hit Carbondale and then Indy (due south of me), and after that it was back to work.
We were at about 95%. The sky became a dark French gray and I have some fuzzy colander photos like this one:
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I think the best part where I was , was a bright red point at the “bottom” of the eclipse, like someone was shining a red laser from the moon’s surface. The corona looked amazing.
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Sigh. Rochester, NY here. No joy in Mudville.
Yesterday was gorgeous. This morning was nice and sunny, with wispy clouds. By 3pm, there was a solid cloud layer overhead. Leading up to totality, it got real dark very fast - you could see the light fading - and it definitely cooled off. Very dark through totality, and then it got real light very fast.
On the plus side, my eclipse glasses were from T-Mobile, and consisted of a fairly nice pair of plastic sunglasses (UV 400 rating) with a clip-on ISO-rated eclipse shade, so I can at least use the sunglasses in the future.
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It was rough but we pulled through! 
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“Wearing eclipse grasses is like wearing diapers on your eyes!” - MAGAworld.
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I noted that too. It appeared orange-ish to me, then it grew to two distinct points before they merged into one then flared bright when the moon passed farther along.
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It occurred to me that not enough playlists have touched on Moon Shadow.
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I learned about these here from @allenk. They’re called Bailey’s Beads
This effect occurs when gaps in the Moon’s rugged terrain allows sunlight to pass through in some places just before the total phase of the eclipse.
ETA: not Bailey’s Beads! See below
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This was throughout totality, not the typical Bailey Bead
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And now, the hours-long slog through traffic to get home. Grrr.
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oh! so that’s where children come from!
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I thought it was the same effect, the sun still showing through low points on the lunar horizon. If it was something different I’d love to learn about it!
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If you have a stellar body, people will make the trip to see it.
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