Blackberries ready for a visit 2020-07-13 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Blackberry bushes are producing across the county, ready for harvesting the ripe ones and converting them to jams and cobblers. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

We are all precious in His sight 2020-07-13 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. In front of Zornes Law Office is one of the artistic and meaningful messages created on the sidewalks July 8 and 9, 2020. Walkers enjoyed seeing and reading them as they went around town. This one reads: "Red, Yellow, Black and White - We Are Precious in His Sight." s/KANTLEE Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

You're kind of beautiful 2020-07-12 - Adair Co., KY - Photo by Janet Scheel. Janet caught this photo of a deer back in November of 2019. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Artist at work at Trabue House 2020-07-12 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Mary Anne Loy. Mary Anne writes, "Saturday was the perfect morning for Karen Roland to paint in the Trabue House garden. Her white canvas was soon filled with the landscape's splendid colors, as she worked adeptly with her oils. The historic home, as well as the Rogers home across Jamestown Street, was the perfect background for all the colorful flowers. Karen is a local artist, affiliated with the Adair County Arts Council and Plein Air Artists of Central Kentucky." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Motivational photo contest entry 2020-07-12 - Adair County, KY - Photo from City Hall, Columbia, KY. The City of Columbia worked to take pictures of some of the "beautiful, inspirational, patriotic and fun chalk art" done on the sidewalks July 8 and 9, 2020. Walkers enjoyed seeing and reading them as they went around town. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Searching for mom 2020-07-12 - Adair County, KY - Photo by James Roberts. The photographer writes, "I had this little visitor looking at us through the fence. He or she had gotten separated from mom and was running back and forth along the fence. We only observed from a distance until finally it took off to be reunited with its mom." - James Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Bears Around Adair - Bear Board officially organized 2020-07-12 - Adair County, KY - Photo from archives of Columbia Magazine. Back in the day, in 1996, these were the men who first joined Ed Waggener, CEO, in forming the official Columbia Blue Ribbon Bear Board to answer these questions: are there bears in Adair County? Where? What kind are they? Could they be descendants of Haskin Coomer's Hobart Bear? Are they a friendly sort of bear? If not, what precautions should be taken with children, pets, small livestock, and tourists? Should bears come under planning & zoning? Gary Coomer, top left, "the Dean of the Bear Board, lives on Bennett Ridge, smack dab in the middle of Likely Black Bear Country. To the north lies the Dean Woods, where there have been Bear Sightings. To the East rises Meatskin Road, then Harvey and Sparks and Independent and Greenbrier Ridges; next, Dirigo, Hwy 704, rich in bear lore; then northern Cumberland County-and beyond, more Cumberland County. Thence to Clinton, through heavily forested Wayne County, and thence, eastward to McCreary County, the most westward confirmed black bear county in Kentucky. Bill Ballou, lower left, "Because of his extraordinary qualifications, this legendary lawman cum Circuit Court Clerk is the only Bear Board Member at Large. Mr. Ballou knows bears inside out. And he respects them. "I killed a bear at the head of Big Runnix (Renox to sissies) when I was young," he remembers. "It was me or him. If I had had my gun, I would have shot him. But I didn't. I picked up a big stick and slew him with one blow between the eyes...". Johnny Vaughn, at right, "...has actually killed two bears, and has pictures to prove it. He will be responsible for the Fishers' Ford Sector of Adair County and the Fountain area below his office on the Columbia Public Square." Clicking 'read more' will take you to the story of the formation in 1996 of the official board, more members and more reasons why men felt it a vital necessity. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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