One of the coolest things about an eclipse is the weird thing it does to the shadows leafy trees cast on the ground just before and after totality.
I didn’t notice that, as I was in a farmer’s field with no trees close by. I’ll take notice this time around.
These are pinhole images of the sun, formed from the openings between the leaves as they move around. This happens on any sunny day, but the images are circles and you don’t think anything of them because they seem like blurry spots, rather than circular images. When they become crescents, then that’s something!
And don’t forget the birds start chirping and crickets go nutz