DAY TRIP: leaving Patty Ridge Road and its beauty 2019-03-17 - Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The trip across Patty Ridge Road delivered so much beauty, from "Daddy's Mountain" in the distance to the cattle blocking their road to this extraordinary hunter disturbed by the vehicle passing too closely to his perch. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Daffodil Watch 2019: Spencer County 2019-03-17 - Spencer Co, KY - Photo by Pen. The woods are full of bright yellow flowers at Taylorsville Lake State Park this weekend. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

High waters at Holmes Bend Boat Dock 2019-03-17 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com. Green River Lake is so high after all the winter rains that the lower parking lot and beach and fishing pier are all under water. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

You must practice what you preach, Hunt tells leaders 2019-03-16 - Ransdell Chapel, CU, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. Pastor Johnny Hunt, senior vice president of evangelism and leadership with the North American Mission Board, author, former senior pastor of First Baptist Woodstock, Ga., and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, was guest speaker of the February Kingdom Advance Network at Campbellsville University. He told church leaders, “You must model what you preach!” Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

DAY TRIP: down Patty Ridge Road to the creek 2019-03-16 - Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Patty Ridge Road is barely bigger than one-car/truck width and was shared by Black Angus calves and cows at the bottom of the hill on the day of my travels in Russell County. - LW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Sunny Forsythia Saturday - last weekend of winter 2019 2019-03-16 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Happy sunny Forsythia Saturday, March 16th. This is the last weekend of winter 2019 and it includes St. Patrick's Day Sunday for wearing of the green. Spring, says the calendar, begins officially this coming Wednesday, March 20, 2019. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

DAY TRIP: across Patty Ridge Road to find a mountain 2019-03-16 - Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. If you head east from Columbia to Russell Springs, then turn left as if you were going to Liberty, in a short distance you'll see a turn to the right with the sign "Patty Ridge Road". Not very far off that turn onto Patty Ridge Road, there in the distance, as clear as it could be on this cloudy winter day, was the distinct, tall blue peak rising above the green Cedars and Pines, leafless Oaks and Maples that made up the tree line - "Daddy's Mountain". I communed with the cows in the field to see if it was all right to take a picture above their heads - they indicated it was OK so long as I kept moving and got no closer to their fence. The story of the mountain and why it was referred to in our house as "Daddy's Mountain" came back to me. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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