Blacksmith demonstration at the Eclipse Festival in Mountain View, Arkansas. The area is well known for its preservation and teaching of traditional Ozarks arts and crafts, plus they were in the line of totality for the 2024 solar eclipse.

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Previously I posted a photo of the totality taken with my Nikon.

All the photos leading up to the totality -- including this one -- I took with my Google Pixel cell phone.

My husband and I traveled to Mountain View, AR to experience four minutes of totality.

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The talented leaf-curling spiders are orb weavers that protect themselves from predators by sitting inside a silk seamed, curled leaf.

There is a profusion of these here currently, but each curled-leaf retreat a miracle in itself.

Endemic to the eastern areas of this country. Genus Phonognatha, perhaps graeffei.

Female, 10 mm body length.

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Designed by the New York based Fellheimer and Wagner architectural firm and built in 1927 by the Southern Railway to serve it’s trains and those of Atlantic & Yadkin Railroad, the J. Douglas Galyon Depot is in downtown Greensboro North Carolina. Greensboro being named for Major General Nathanael Greene, who served in the American Revolution as commander of the American forces at the Battle of Guilford Court House in 1781, not far from here. The station in its heyday in the 1940 before air travel overcame the rails, hosted 40 passenger trains a day. Closed in 1979, donated to the city of Greensboro by Southern Railway. 1993 the North Carolina Department of Transportation and the city of Greensboro started on plan to reopen the station for passenger travel, construction began in 2001 and the first phase opened in 2003. Olympus EM-1 Mark I OM SYSTEM OLYMPUS Zuiko 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 Digital ED SWD Lens MMF-3 Micro Fourthirds Adapter. #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @kehcamera @mpbcom #omd @visitgreensboronc @visitnc #olympus #microfourthirds #micro43 #micro43photography @amtrak

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