I thought we were going to miss it—Austin, Texas was so cloudy the morning of the eclipse. We missed some phases but saw totality.

Totality was incredible. My mind melted, the sky broke; adjectives fail me. I lept to my feet and hooted involuntarily.

I managed to scrounge together the pictures above. You can see a solar prominences and whatever parts of the corona I could pull out of the clouds. The clouds made for crummy pictures, but the experience was unforgettable.