Fig. 01. F. Baily – Illustration of the 1842 solar eclipse with four prominences.

A solar eclipse lasts minutes - the relationship it reveals has lasted billions of years. The sun providing energy for every living cell on earth. The moon regulating our water; in seas, in soil, and in sap, through a gravitational pull so consistent and powerful that life has evolved around it. Humans, animals, and plants; we are all downstream of these forces. The grape, when in sensitive hands, is a vector for these forces with extraordinary clarity.