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Day trip: exploring southern Adair County

It's a great day for a Day Trip - best in person - maybe second best with the photo(s) taken over many day trips along and just off the way, now being linked to this introduction
Click on headline for Day Trip photo(s) on and and along the way to Breeding and Burkesville, KY. Additional photo(s) being added

By Linda Waggener

Southern Adair County toward the Cumberland County line offers plenty of opportunities for exploration. If you take the big road, the new Burkesville Road/KY 61, you find beautiful scenery, barbecue at the Breeding Country Mart, and the fastest ground route to Burkesville and Dale Hollow Lake; Celina and Chattanooga, TN, and Key West.

You can do that, or, you may detour onto the "Old Breeding Loop", what used to be the main road, where the wonders of nature are many. The scenic beauty is shared in photos below this story.




This story was posted on 2017-06-25 10:44:44
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Scenic Adair Co:, KY: Daylillies on Harrods Fork Creek



2017-06-23 - Near Elroy, Adair Co, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c).
Even with heavy rains today, Harrods Fork Creek is only a hint of its size, here, near Elroy, Adair County, KY, of what it will become when it enters Crocus Creek. - EW. Photo Fri 23 Jun 2017.

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Scenic Adair Co., KY: First Harvest, The Flat Woods



2017-06-23 - The Flat Woods, Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c).
The drive north into Columbia along Burkesville Road/KY 61 has unforgettable scenes, especially in Hay Time. This scene looks over a bouquet of Queen Anne's Lace, rolls of hay, across Wheeler Hill Road, to freshly harvested hay, in the greenest day so far, so far this early day of summer. - EW. Photo 23 Jun 2017.

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Wildflowers of Kentucky: A near perfect Day Lily



2017-06-23 - Between Sparksville and Breeding, Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c).
Day lily along Harrods Fork Creek, Adair County, KY. - LW. Photo Fri 23 Jun 2017.

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Just like a tree (barely) standing by the water



2017-06-24 - Harrods Fork Creek, Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com photo(c).
One would likely have to be a retired district forester to explain how the tree in the center of the photo continues to stand, with only a sliver of its trunk supporting it, but it does. Likely it will fall within the not too distant future. But for now, its an inspiration for mortality in its withering years. It stands by the headwaters of mighty Harrods Fork Creek, close to Elroy, between Sparksville and Breeding, KY.

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Edge flowers: Sweet peas in Breeding KY



2017-06-24 - Breeding Loop, Breeding, Kentucky - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com photo(c).
Sweet peas growing along a fence row in downtown Breeding are a reminder of the days when sweet peas and old fashioned Tiger Lilies and basketweave fences were a big part of the edge landscaping throughout the nation. Here and there they are still seen as in the lawn in the old part of Breeding.

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Little Renox waterfalls by Robert Ellis



2017-06-25 - Salem Park. ​​​​​45 Salem Park Road. Burkesville, Cumberland Co., KY. Approximately midway between Breeding and Burkesville. - Photo by Robert Ellis (c) .
This delightful little falls occurs at the junction of the Big and Little Renox Creeks, just before the two creeks merge and pass under the Highway 61 bridge that heads in the direction of Burkesville. The Falls (Little Renox) I suspect is dry most of the time, at least it was when I visited this spot back in the winter. I had hoped with Friday's rain the little creek would be flowing and sure enough I was treated with picturesque, photographic opportunities...the actual falls is much larger than the pic, this just happened to be my favorite view. - Robert Ellis

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Careful where you wander



2017-06-25 - Breeding, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com.
This guard gave us one of those looks when we slowed down for a photo of the landscape nearby -- a look like Granny Waggener used to give my husband when he was little and about to do something she disapproved of and just that look, he said, guided him in the opposite direction. This look did the same.

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Hollyhock garden. Breeding, KY



2017-06-25 - Breeding, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com.
This is the first full garden of Hollyhocks seen in our travels and it is a showstopper on Old Breeding Loop off Highway 61 south of Columbia. Colors are solid maroon and pink.

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Wildflowers of Kentucky: lavender flowers on KY 61



2017-06-25 - Breeding, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com.
Lavender wildflowers dress up this barn in the photo at left. At right, is a close up of the blossom in hopes readers can identify and share its name. It was discovered on KY 61 a little bit north of Breeding.

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Poisonous beauty to appreciate from a distance



2017-06-28 - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com.
Don't eat these wild mushrooms growing on the wet banks beside Harrods Fork Creek in southern Adair County, just photograph them and move on, careful not to let the Poison Ivy touch your legs as you move. Researching it, I found the entertaining article at this link that referred to mushrooms of this type as, "Night Cap ...a poisonous beauty known as Jumbo Jim...".

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