I was wiped out after yesterday even though everything went fantastic!  I guess it's the mental strain of planning, deciding where to go and then keeping your fingers crossed that you get to see totality!  My grandson Carter came along with my wife Sherry and we simply drove about 20 minutes west from my house and parked in a Walmart shopping center.  I had my Lunt SS, the Seestar and my Canon 7D on an iOptron Startracker for pictures with a remote shutter release.  We had high clouds and at times some larger clouds threatened our view of totality but we also witnessed something I had read about that as the sun got closer to totality clouds would dissipate as the temperature dropped.  There was a large cloud headed right for the sun about 2 minutes before totality and Carter and I watched it simply disappear!  The high clouds remained so getting a sharp image of the Diamond Rings didn't turn out great and I could not quite pull the structure out of the Corona as I did in 2017, but it was a beautiful totality nonetheless!  Carter and I both were amazed at the sharpness, visually, of the 2nd Diamond Ring.  It was also interesting, since we were on the southern border of totality and only got 1 1/2 minutes of it, how dark the sky was to the North compared to the south.  Didn't have time to take a panorama but it was just striking!

Also got to do some outreach with 3 women from various parts of the US, and a father and his 3 young ones that set up near us.  The one woman traveled to see eclipses prior to this one but had never looked through an Ha scope so her group kept coming over to take looks through the Lunt.  The father and his kids just looked up from the eyepiece with their mouths open!  It was great fun and we had no problems with traffic.  Not the most picturesque locale but it certainly served its purpose! 

The little Seestar was great for following the partial phases and I even caught some Bailey's Beads and that large triangular prom through the solar filter.  I watched the phases on my phone and would simply take a quick photo from time to time, but ended up using the partial shots from my Canon for the composite image.

Whew, glad I got a good night's sleep last night!  Oh yeah, and now rain for the next 4 days, but that's OK!