Today is Friday, which should mean a post about food. However, we’re still mired in the minutia of sorting and doing paperwork for exiting out of Germany at the end of the month, and I haven’t had time to write the food post. Also, my apologies for not having much time in general  for blogging this week. Thanks to all of you for the comments and emails; I’ll need to response to your comments and  also to answer your questions next week.

Anyway, since this morning there was a partial eclipse here in Germany, I’ll at least offer a quick glimpse of the event, as seen through our blinds in our living room. Our blinds — when closed — have little circles that let in interesting shadow patterns normally. As a bonus, they also became an effective pinhole camera of a sort with which to view the eclipse. Thus the photos in the gallery below offer a few quick  — and unedited — peeks at what it looked like this morning in our apartment during the eclipse.

And as Chris pointed out, the sun took on a half-moon and then crescent shape during the eclipse, which makes it just a  a hop, skip and jump to get to croissants … or mezzaluna (half-moon shaped) pasta.  Which sort of makes this post eligible to be called a Food on Fridays post.

Well, sort of.

Enjoy.