May 10, 1994

There was an annular solar eclipse this day around noon in my part of the world. Laura decided to try viewing it through her welder's mask, assuming anything that could protect her eyes from a close up acetylene torch could protect her from the sun. I don't know if that's true, but it sounded reasonable. Meanwhile, Armen constructed a basic pinhole projector. It was working well, so he punched a few more pinholes and he had multiple eclipses going on the cardboard screen. Once the main excitement was over, I left him in the Glove Factory parking lot and took a walk toward the glass house. The still partially eclipsed sun gave the sky a kind of surreal quality- bright blue, but at the same time dark like a thunderstorm was passing over.