Would love to hear a report on how solar eclipse heucherellas do in full sun.... I am also interested in knowing how they respond color-wise to more shade or less shade. I like them best when their centers look like dark chocolate, rather than a rusty nail. When I purchased mine from Lowe's, some had the very dark centers, and some had rusty centers. Just in case it made a difference, I chose all dark ones. However, I suspect the difference was just the amount of light they'd been exposed to over the previous weeks.

A grocery clerk this evening told me that his friend is planning to buy several cases of water, put them on ice and deliver them to people stuck in their cars on the roads. He would accept donations, but no obligation-I thought that was a super idea. We're expecting over half a million people in our town. My office will pretty much be empty-I don't know who will be there, but I know I'm not going to be! We're mandated by law to be open, so it may just be the Director answering the phone, LoL.

100% in little Sparta, TN, a pretty two hour drive from Huntsville, AL. We kept to the back roads the whole time, saw very little eclipse traffic. We enjoyed a spectacular experience with a small contingent of like-minded stranger/friends on a private little knoll; I'll never forget it. It was my second total eclipse and I felt so rewarded to know that my 47 year old memory was vividly accurate! It was a fabulous, memorable experience.

I rarely get up at 4:30, and it was kind of fun walking around while the city was mostly asleep. We live near the East River and went there to watch. There were about a dozen other people. It was friendly and kind of like an impromptu party. One guy had a huge telescope that he hauled on a wheeled cart over a mile to get there. He let us all look through it, an we could see a little bit, but the clouds blocked most of it. Another woman drew little chalk pictures of it and gave one to us. So not much eclipse to see, but it was beautiful watching the sun rise and reflect off the glass buildings across the river, and seeing all of the colors in the clouds.