Pretty cool, wasn’t it? While an astronomy buff for most of my life, I never really grasped what an awesome experience viewing a total eclipse would be until I found myself staring into the totality from downtown McMinnville at 1:30 p.m. Monday.It is hard to describe. Sure, we captured numerous pictures and I even put video on our website, but all of us who lifted our eyes up and saw the sun’s corona glowing around the moon know that video and pictures do it no justice.