Caney Fork Creek on a cold winter day 7 Jan 2017 2017-01-08 - Coburg, KY area - Photo by Robert Ellis (c) . Photo Saturday, 7 Jan 2017 by Robert Ellis. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The famed Big Tree at Vester, majestic in winter, too 2017-01-08 - Vester-on-KY 206, Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Marcum Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c). For the tens of thousands of the Burton Ridge diaspora around the globe, to whom Vester is the center of the known universe, The Big Tree is every bit as iconic as the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, Lil Bertha's Place, Monument Circle or even the world renowned Begley Chapel and Adair County Courthouse Clocktower. A tree expert would know whether it is a "ranked" tree in girth or height. Maybe, maybe not. But if the memory quotient is factored in, what's happened under this tree certainly deserves top tier ranking in "The World Record Book of Guinesses," often cited by the late and great Mayor, Coy Downey. - EW. Photo windshielded by Linda Waggener, Saturday, 7 Jan 2017. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Winter afternoon in Coburg, KY - 7 Jan 2017 2017-01-08 - Coburg, KY - Photo by Steve Myers (c). Light and shadow and a frigid winter day with fat cattle dining on sweet hay were captured in this farm scene at Coburg, KY, on Saturday, January 7, 2017. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Trees of Kentucky: Sycamore tree seen through sunroof 2017-01-08 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Marcum Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c). Sometimes, photographers need to remember that, even on the most fabulous days when there are billions of once-in-a-lifetime scenes needing to be documented at or near eye level, it pays to look up at the sky. Looking at the sky brings out the little kid in all of us. It's a little hard to lay down in the snow and watch the skies, the way a pre-teen can whiling away a slow summer day, but the sunroof on Linda's little Honda made a perfect chance to capture a sycamore at one of its best times. This one was in a photographer's paradise, Greater Gradyville, KY. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Snowy Begley Chapel through the eyes & lens of 3 year old 2017-01-08 - Begley Chapel, 302 Lindsey Wilson Street, Columbia, KY - Photo submitted by her aunt, Orissa Mora-Kent. "My 3 year old niece took this picture yesterday of the Lindsey Wilson College Chapel." - Orissa Mora-Kent. The classic photo above is an unedited version taken on Saturday, January 7, 2016. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The Whitehurst Diaries: Sweater Weather II 2017-01-07 - Sanders Ridge, Pellyton, Adair County, KY - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst (c). This photo was taken just 20 minutes after Sweater Weather I. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The Whitehurst Diaries: Sweater Weather I 2017-01-07 - Sanders Ridge, Pellyton, Adair County, KY - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst (c). Sharon Whitehurst remembered to document the beauty of this day with this photo, taken just as the sun was peeking over the hill, as nostalgia impelled her to write the diary entry for today, a distillations of past thoughts mingled with inspirations today's frigid for Kentucky - not for Vermont, where it's not 'frigid' until the F falls fully below 0. Photo Sat 7 Jan 2017. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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