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What do you do when you fail to get the special glasses needed to stare directly into the sun during a solar eclipse?  Well, you go online and look for other safe ways to view a solar eclipse.  Black and White film negatives looked like a great way but I was fresh out of those so I went with the peg board.  We had some at The Little Brick House so I picked it up.  Sure enough it worked.  We literally had hundreds of little eclipses on the wall of our house.  I am sure it pales in comparision to actually staring at the sun but it worked for us.  We watched as the moon slowly crept in on the sun and we could see it happening in every hole on the peg board.  We also discovered that lining up a papercup with a hole in the bottom with the sun can provide a quick personal eclipse magnifyer. Anyhow, here are a couple of pics with the peg board. 
Natty on the job. 

The ring of fire projected a few hundred times through the peg board. 

One of the other really cool ways to see the eclipse safely without the glasses is through the leaves of a tree.  This was what was being projected all over the back of my house as the eclipse was shining through a large tree one street over. 

It even projected through the pine tree in Jay and Sara's back yard.  That was pretty amazing acutally.  Here is a picture of the sun shining though their pine tree.  I thought this was cool, an exciting display of nature anyway. 



The boys were into it for a couple of minutes and then they kind of dissappeared.  Natty was all into it and rather liked it.  Jay and Sara and the kids came over - we may have lost a few of them to boredom.  Anyhow, I think we all enjoyed it.