Here we are, lazy boys in Junction, TX. But we had a long day. 

We rolled out of Fort Stockton before sunrise. I decided that the Fort Stockton landscape looked just as good in the dark as it does in the light. Maybe better. 

Along the way, we were greeted by a mountain that seemed, um, happy to see us.

The desolate landscape greened up very slowly as we began crossing the occasional small river, starting with the venerable Pecos River. Yellow flowers (primroses?) colored the median and the roadsides. 

We gassed up in Junction and headed east, eventually switching to Hwy 290 and then Tivydale Road. The vegetation continued to get greener, shifting to patches of oaks with green grass growing beneath them. Bluebonnets joined the primroses. 270 miles from our start In Tivydale, my pick for an obscure viewing location, we stopped at a very wide, elongated road shoulder where a couple of people were already parked. Eventually there were seven vehicles there. It took a couple of hours before we noticed the first tiny nibble out of the disc of the sun, In about half an hour, the eclipse reached totality. There were lots of clouds obscuring it most of the time, but we managed to get a few photos.

Note the reddish solar flare in the 5:00 position on the sun's disc.

There was a rather profound darkness all around us. Frogs began croaking somewhere in the woods. When the sun first emerged again there was a "diamond ring" effect from the mountains and valleys on the moon. 

We got back to Junction effortlessly. There were some pretty huge traffic jams in other locations. We had a celebratory lunch. Now we're tired and we lack the ambition to do anything.