Birds of Kentucky: Juvenile Robin 2015-06-25 - Shelbyville, KY - Photo by Pen. A juvenile robin, taking a break from flying lessons. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Making it great with a little help from my friends 2015-06-25 - Fortune Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Thanks to some great friends and the wonderful little lady of the house I was able to have a five minute breakfast, with a two minute clean up. And it was good. Thanks to Sue Humphress, the pickled egg was ready to eat. The color is from the beet she uses in her 60-egg recipe - she may have used store bought eggs - but that's OK. Linda brought in the juicy and full-of-taste red ripe tomato and the cuke from Taylor County, obtained on her way home from work. The zucchini, summer squash, and fresh onion pickles and the asparagus spear are from a Care Package delivered to us by the Angel of McKinley Lane, my wonderful niece, Mitzi Bault, who also shared a story of historic import, of the most powerful potato gun ever, invented by Blake Cowan. Now that beet colored egg . . . it comes with more provenance than Sue Humphress may have given me the right to tell. (She says that overindulgence made some gassy, so they had huge laughs as one after another said "The dog did it.') Pickled eggs are favorites of her Buskirk Hollow Clan from Pike County, who made a pilgrimage to Cane Valley a few days to visit Sue and her Adair County born, husband Billy. She always makes makes a jar of five dozen of the delicacies a few days before the Clan arrives. Won't give away her recipe, just the coloring agent: Beets. And, oh yes: The idea of cucumbers for breakfast? Never thought of cucumbers at that time of day until Pen came home from a trip to Hawaii and prepared an omelet island style, with a side of sliced cucumbers. Vinegar is the seasoning. It was great. The Asparagus spear, eaten raw and seasoned with sea salt, was inspired by an episode of Psyche. Supposed to be healthy, they said. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

ACHS Welding Fabrication team at SkillsUSA competition 2015-06-24 - Kentucky Fair & Expo Center, 937 Phillips Lane, Louisville, KY - Photo Cellphone photo submitted by Shamarie Claiborne. The Adair County High School Welding Fabrication Team completed their project in the national SkillsUSA competition Wednesday, June 24, 2015. The team, from left, Dusty Claiborne, Chad Scholl, and Joshua Grant, built a barbecue smoker. They said they felt really good about the outcome and with the 150 question written test they were required to take today. A total of 190 college and high school students completed today. Another group will compete on Thursday. The ACHS team won't know until the awards ceremonies on Friday, June 26, 2015 who has won this competition. The team was accompanied to Louisville by their coach and teacher, Barney Taylor. - SHAMARIE CLAIBORNE. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Stream project w/Turning lanes: Day 28/14 to go 2015-06-24 - Campbellsville Street at Fairground Street, Columbia, KY - Photo ColumbiaMagazine.com photo. It's in the home stretch near the end of the Day 28 of the closure. Construction vehicles can now cross the completed culvert in the right of the photo. A turn lane to exit Campbellsville Street for northbound traffic onto Fairground Street is being added in the right side of the frame. A second turning lane for northbound traffiic leaving Fairground Street is being added, too, thanks to an outright gift of right of way by Columbia Manufacturer Rob Wilkerson, with help from community leader Junior Stotts. In the right hand side of the photo, the last of the Open Ditch is being covered, and a drain and new culvert will carry water from the lot to the new open waterway on the west side of the road. Already, Mr. Wilkerson said, he's getting word that property improvements will be being made by others on Campbellsville Street. The finish day is weather dependent, but the addition of the turning lanes is expected on the same time frame as the original project. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Al Cross on DPI with Dr. John Chowning 2015-06-24 - WLCU Broadcast Studios, 203 West Broadway, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Drew Tucker, Campbellsville University. Dr. John Chowning, vice president for church and external relations and executive assistant to the president of Campbellsville University, right, interviews Al Cross, Director of the Institute for Rural Journalism & Community Issues at the University of Kentucky, for his "Dialogue on Public Issues" show. The show will air the following times: on WLCU-TV, Campbellsville University's cable channel 10, Monday, June 29, 2015, at 1:30pm/EDT; Tuesday, June 30 at 7:30pm/EDT.; Wednesday, July 1, at 1:30pm/EDT; and Thursday, July 2 and Friday, July 3 at 8pm/EDT; and on 88.7 The Tiger radio at 8am/EDT Sunday, June 28 and at 6:30pm/EDT - DREW TUCHER, Campbellsville University Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Male hummingbird - II 2015-06-24 - Gradyville, Adair County, KY - Photo by Elizabeth Fausnaugh. This handsome dude is the prize two female hummers were fighting over. Paired photo. See also: Birds of KY: Female hummers fight for affection of maie - I Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of KY: Female hummers fight for affection of maie - I 2015-06-24 - Gradyville, Adair County, KY - Photo Elizabeth Fausa. Took these on my deck overlooking beautiful Big Creek, in Gradyville. Love to watch the hummers. These two ladies were arguing over a gentleman, lol. I have enclosed a picture of him also. From the other side of the creek in Paradise, USA, - Betsy Fausnaugh Paired photo. See Also: Birds of Kentucky: Male hummingbird Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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