IMHO In My Humble Opinion

Eclipse day!

I got advice on how to set my camera to capture an image of Baily's Beads or
a diamond ring just before totality, and here's the result:

eclipse: The Eclipse

Not too much to see there, mainly because the fog never cleared. So while I
have yet to actually see a total eclipse, I've still experienced over four
and a half minutes of totality, which is a bit incredible itself. Because of
the fog, it likely didn't get quite as dark as it would have otherwise, but
it was still as dark as night during totality. I noticed it getting dimmer
about half an hour before totality, which some experienced eclipse watchers
tell me I would normally not have noticed due to spending time looking at
the partial eclipse phase.

Apparently much of the path of totality was engulfed in clouds, so at least
I got to experience a clouded over eclipse on a beautiful mountaintop. This
trip was more about seeing China and Tibet to me anyway, but there are some
people on the tour who are depressed that they didn't get to see it.

I spent most of the rest of the day wandering around the mountaintop, which
has a few Buddhist temples on it (the mountaintop is a holy place for
Buddhists). In front of each of the temples is a stand for worshippers to
put candles:

Buddhist Candles

and between the candles and the temple, burning incense:

Buddhist Incense

I definitely want to come back on a less rainy occasion; this place is
beautiful.