In case, like me, you weren’t able to catch the solstice eclipse due to weather (or the fact that it was in the middle of the night), here is a great time lapse movie of the eclipse in its entirety. Really amazing stuff.

Today, a trip to our local closest Ikea store allowed us to gawk at Hurricane Earl as it blew by Connecticut late this afternoon.

There was a good stiff breeze

and the highest tide we’ve ever seen when we come up here (although, I think it’s because we’ve never been up there at high tide before).

The clouds were ominous, but there was only a slight sprinkling of rain.

We lucked out.

[8:15 am]

At least, that’s what Accuweather.com is calling it.