Solar eclipse creates some mid-day shade

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Jessica James-Weeks, the manager of Black Rock Mountain State Park, gazes toward the sky while wearing her special glasses to view the solar eclipse on Oct. 14. In the background, Garrett McClure and Taylor Herrington say their vows in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Photo courtesy Truett Spivey. The sun seems to have a slice taken out of it during the Oct. 14 solar eclipse.

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun Gap-Nacoochee chemistry teacher Nicole Ager helps sisters Selah Rouhani, 8; Evelyn Rouhani, 7; and Emily Rouhani, 5, of Clarkesville create pinhole projectors to view the Oct. 11 solar eclipse. People made the trip to the high elevation of Black Rock Mountain State Park to get a better look at the event.

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Dottie Haney of Sky Valley uses her solar viewing glasses to look at the solar eclipse while at Black Rock Mountain State Park on Oct. 11.