Montpelier, KY area - Crepe Myrtle in 'Cotton Candy' stage 2018-07-09 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Crepe Myrtle is at or nearing its peak in the CM 7-County area, now forming the familiar 'Cotton Candy' clusters weighing heavy over the shrubs, many already bowing low under their loads (especially the white variety seen on E Fortune Street by the Columbia/Adair Chamber of Commerce parking lot). - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Flowers of KY - Perfect Tiger Lilies along a secret public byway 2018-07-09 - Within the CM 7 County area of Adair, Casey, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Russell & Taylor Counties - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. There's never enough of these heirloom plants, which weren't growing in America until imported from the Far East. Unlike Day Lilies, the following cited Wikipedia article says, all parts of the Tiger Lily, above, are poisonous to humans, and fatal to cats, though the plant is raised as a vegetable crop. It's poisonous bulbs, prepared in the correct manner, are edible. These lanky beauties were seen recently shading the right-of-way of a publicly maintained cul-de-sac lane. See: wiki/Lilium-lancifolium Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Sunflower heliotroped away from lens 2018-07-09 - Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Plants aren't as responsive to human whistles as horses and cows - they pose perfectly with on a whistle cue. But no amount of coaxing could turn this beautiful sunflower's eyes to the camera. Turns out, it's just as beautiful, this way, heliotroping exactly with solar movement, and wonder if someone, with a teensy percentage of the genius of Ben Banneker, might have figured out how to tell time as the sunflower turned its head. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Natural Bridge, Adair County, KY 2018-07-09 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Sometimes nature takes millions of years to build a natural bridge, as with the creation of the rockhouse just a few miles south of this natural bridge, created in a few seconds very recently, in the Third Magisterial District of Adair County, KY. This one hasn't been tested for maximum weight allowed - we know it would hold up a horde of squirrels - but inquiries to people who remember such things led to the discovery that natural foot bridges or 'walk bridges' were once - maybe still are - used in parts of the county. Some, we're told, were enhanced with people-built landings and guard rails. Some even had names. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Mystery 'UFO' #79588, a bagworm, more clearly, another way 2018-07-09 - Green Hills, Columbia, Adair County, KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge, President, Homeplace on Green River. Columbia naturalist Billy Joe Fudge fully documented his observation of a little known phenomenon of nature, the bagworm at work building its 'castle.' or, in this case, its spacecraft. It took a lot of guesses and a lot of clues, but Jill Petrey finally figured it out, before the rest of us became stressed out, trying to unravel the mystery. Above, the bagworm is suspended by a tiny, super strong filament, not visible in the online rendering, and is very close to the ground. - EW. Photos (c) Billy Joe Fudge. Paired photo - A UFO over Green Hills? Mystery#79558 Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Haying time in Adair County, KY - Sun 8 Jul 2018 2018-07-09 - Along a scenic Adair County highway, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Mowing patterns in the gently rolling farmland near the Adair Russell County line presented gentle-on-the-eye patterns Sunday afternoon, July 7, when this photo was taken. Just guessing that the deep green of the circle at right mid frame is simply avoidance of tractor-unfriendly bogginess, not for aesthetics, but both are beautifully accomplished. Incidentally, though the cropping of this photo doesn't show it, views are spectacular in this area of Magistrate Sammy Baker's District. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Wildflowers of KY - Fairy Clothesline in Russell County, KY 2018-07-09 - Along a Russell County, KY byway not too far from Coffeys Chapel church. - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Every day scientists are telling us the mechanisms for how things get from here to there. This photo was taken of black-eyed susans, at the base, but when the photo was opened, the 'fairy clothes line' vine - ID welcome - turned out to be the more interesting part of the picture, the vine arching from the ground to the barbed wire fence post. Would love to see a time lapse video showing how the plant engineered this feat. The photo, taken 12 hours out of sync with its magic time, was taken Sun 8 Jul 2018. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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