Still waiting in pictures for the sun to disappear, April 2024:
The edge of the world! Or the edge of Cedar Point's eclipse event, anyway, with nobody allowed past those fence posts ... you'd think ...
Another eclipse factoid that turned out to be quite true; it's amazing how cold it got so fast.
Looking out along the midway at Raptor, one of the majority of coasters that wouldn't be open for a month yet. Also those trees at top of the picture; we don't usually see them that bare and if we do, it's because of Halloweekends and a chilly autumn, which this was very much not.
The Length of totality is one of those fascinating things that reveals how complicated the Earth-Moon-Sun thing is. This eclipse would have about four minutes' totality and it did seem a little like down-selling their own event that the next really long eclipse would be the July after this.
Some of the Kiddie Kingdom rides. Turns out they were disassembled for winter safekeeping and not yet put back together.
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bunnyhugger gets a picture of her favorite rabbit on the Kiddie Kingdom Carousel.
Here's what she looks like riding it, except for not being in motion yet.
The paw of the rabbit mount that I rode, showing off how rabbits don't have paw pads.
bunnyhugger's rabbit. I'm not sure I had before paid attention to the front paws being different colors.
And what the heck, a look up at the underside of a carousel animal on the ride. As long as it was a day we had time to putter around like this.
And here's the Kiddie Kingdom carousel building enjoying its unusual spring working day.
One of the Kiddie Kingdom rides running was this spaceships ride.
Trivia: Ptolemey is recorded as having made two attempts at working out a map projection, an ``inferior and easier'' method and a ``superior and more troublesome'' one. The ``inferior and easier'' is a classic grid mapping. Source: On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks, Simon Garfield. (Wikipedia says there were three in his Geography, but maybe his comment was made when he was only partway through his work. In any case none of the actual maps he'd drawn survived and everything we know about it is from text-based reconstructions.)
Currently Reading: The Life of Lines, Tim Ingold.
