Downtown Columbia: Aerial Christmas Tree Farm 2013-07-01 - 214 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. At least from the ground they look like little pine trees. Every year, before the maintenance remove them, volunteer seedlings take root on the Purple Building. This year the crop of pines are the best ever, and regular enough to be a row on a Christmas tree plantation. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Natural Topiary for Adair County School campus 2013-07-01 - Off Indian Drive, Adair County School Campus - Photo by Ed Waggener. The mostly Eastern Red Cedar tree top at the entrance of the Adair County School Campus from Greensburg Street onto Indian Drive has a different look from every angle. From this one, it's obviously a green Holstein with a silver studded color, and a top do-ad which has a name, someplace, if anyone knows. From other angles, it looks like a Janis two-headed dog, maybe a giant Shih-Tzu and a big poodle, and a fox's face - maybe more: all of them as though they came from the same kind of imagination behind David Waltz' whimsical lamp bases. Could be the tree was trained this way on purpose. I wonder if anybody knows. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Flags are flying for the Fourth - at City Hall 2013-07-01 - City Hall, 116 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The first two calls we got at CM this morning were from Larry Smith, coming into town from Campbellsville, and Linda Waggener, on her way to Campbellsville, both excited that the Flags were going up for the Fourth of July. One thing the city is doing right now is only flying bright, unfaded flags - whether one agrees with putthing them up and taking them down so often or prefers the budget for the flags be ample enough to keep them up continuously in warmer weather. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

A new item for this area: Gooseberries 2013-07-01 - Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Gooseberries made what is believed to have been the first appearance of the uncommon pie ingredient around these parts when Danny and Debbie Burris brought this one small container to the Saturday, June 29, 2013, Farmer's Market on the Square. But the berries are familiar to a large number of Adair Countians who have lived and worked in Indiana, were great groaning board cafeterias, like Poe's in Martinsville and hundreds of others, but their uses go beyond pies. According to the entry in Wikipedia, Gooseberry, the berries, fools and crumbles or Brown Betties, to flavor beverages, and for jams and dried fruit, and in pickling. Maybe a reader knows more about them, including whether they can be eaten raw. The exciting thing is the quality of the berries and learning that Adair County truck farmers and gardeners are experimenting. Who would have thought, before Larry Martin made Metcalfe County the Blue Berry Capital, that the crop is ideal for Kentucky hill country soil? Maybe we'll see Adair County Gooseberry Pie on a restaurant menu here, one day this season. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Wildlife of KY: Deer, Absher, KY 2013-07-01 - Absher, Adair Co., KY - Photo by Doyle Lloyd. Doyle Lloyd captured this close up and personal picture of a beautiful doe at Absher. Seen in the ColumbiaMagazine group on Flickr. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Landon Herren attends conference in Boston, MA 2013-07-01 - Boston, MA - Photo from Rhonica Herren Patterson. Landon Herren of Nancy, KY - attended The Junior National Young Leaders Alumni Conference in Boston, MA on June 23-28, 2013. During the conference he took part in educational activities and presentations and explored relevant sites in Boston, MA. The week ended with Landon staying overnight on the USS Salem. - Rhonica Herren Patterson Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

(Ad) Epicurean Kentuckian: Pasta Altena 2013-06-30 - Pablo's Mexican Grill, 1764 Campbellsville Road, Columbia, KY - Photo Pablos Grill photo. Hot and Spicy!!! Grilled Chicken Breast, and fideo pasta, tossed in our Pablo's own homemade spicy marinara sauce, and topped with cilantro. Limited time: $7.25 At Pablo's Mexican Grill, 1764 Campbellsville Road, Columbia, KY. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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