Epicurean Kentuckian: Ginger Curry Chicken 2013-07-22 - Photo by Pen. Leftover grilled chicken cooked with onion, celery, tomato and spinach. Spiced with lots of garlic and chopped fresh ginger and Madras curry powder. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Insects of Kentucky: Butterflies, mud-puddling on Ray Miller Road 2013-07-22 - Ray Miller Road, District 6, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. It's a scene often seen, but seldom understood the gathering of butterflies on a dry bridge, as these are above, often of diverse species of butterflies. Maybe not enough to be a bona fide rabble of butterflies, but several. It's not always, in full context, so pretty a picture. We've excised the litter they were feeding on. It's interesting to learn that they are after, not sugar, but nutrients such as salt and amino acides, according to the Wikipedia entry, Mud-puddling. These were sighted on the dry bridge over a small stream - no name as she knows of, according to Lisa Greer, expert on the subject of bridges in the office of Adair County Judge Executive Ann Melton. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Hard at work on new school year 2013-07-22 - Booster Field, 224 Gen. John Adair Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Shamarie Claiborne, Adair Co. School District photo. I don’t know who is more dedicated - the ADAIR band or Danny Foster of the Adair County School Systems Maintenance Department, all of whom are working in the rain to make Adair County School System look good! Dany is driving the tractor, and, lower right, a few of the ADAIR Band at Summer Camp on Booster Field. In the band area, in no particular order , are band kids Jonathan Burbridge, Grant Cockerham, Jordan Pollard, Kelly Jones, and Instructors Jared Giles and Assistant Director Jonathon Holmes. It's a reminder of 1) Something is going on on campus almost every day of the year, and 2) the 2013-14 School Year for students' Countdown is: 23 days from today to Wednesday, August 14, 2013!. - Shamarie Claiborne Clicking ReadMore accesses Open House Calendar of Events leading up to First Day. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Architectural cast iron signature 2013-07-22 - 101 & 103 E Main Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Larry Smith, The Big Dawg. The cast iron signature on the plate between Big Dawg Studio, the oldest building on Main Street in Campbellsville, KY (1850-60). The light paint on the left is 101 Main Street, owned by Mike Harris of Columbia. The red brick building is the David Nunnery law building. The first bar in Campbellsvile was at 101 E Main. Jimmy the Greek served the first legal drink of alcohol in Campbellsville. The first newspaper in Taylor County was in the building, as was a Coca-Coca Cola bottling plant. Most of the architecural iron trim in this area of Kentucky carries "G.L. Mesker & Co., Evansville, Ind." and I believe this is from the same firm. - Larry Smith Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Hundreds here for 7 on 7 football competition 2013-07-22 - ACHS Football Stadium, 623 Indian Drive, Columbia,KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Hundreds of participants, coaches and fans were in Columbia on Saturday for the Lindsey Wilson College/Adair County High School 7 on 7 football tournment. Above - A Saturday, July 20, 2013 afternoon scene at Adair County High School's stadium, 623 Indian Drive. Across town at Blue Raider Stadium, 828 Russell Road competition was also ongoing. In all 16 teams, from 13 high schools were here. Breezes at the hilltop locations made Saturday's events made Saturday's heat much easier to bear. - CM Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Cash crop in the wild: Right of way blackberries 2013-07-22 - Ray Miller Road, District 6, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. There may not be enough here to quote Betty Sue Jasper's famous line "I see a cobbler in my future," but they are a delight to townies. Right of way blackberries on a lightly travelled country lane in Adair County, which can be secured from a step from the car, with half the risk of chiggers and blacksnakes, and half the risk of a June Bug startling than in a bigger bramble in the field. Wild blackberries are still a source of cash income. David Moore's at the Farmers Market on the Square last Saturday were the hit of the weekly fair. These were along Ray Miller, which intersects with Mt. Tussel Road and is itself a delightful stretch, with Crooked Creek from KY 551 to Caldwell Ridge. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Bro. Travis Adams and his Horse Harness Hame Walking Stick 2013-07-22 - 17165 Liberty Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Bro. Travis Adams "The Airplane Man," of Sanders Ridge Road, drew attention at brunch yesterday with his walking stick. Mrs. Marcum noticed the horse hame, which I had assumed was a dog wonker - a stand your ground defensive against biker, hiker, and runner chasers on Bull Run Road - but which she recognized as part of a horse collar. It is. Bro. Adams made the walking stick himself. The shaft is from an Adair County sycamore tree he said. Bro. Adams, and Emory University trained minister of the United Methodist Church has pastored many churches in the area, including Milltown and Tarter's Chapel UMCs before retiring. He's now writing his memoirs, which will be ready for publication after one more edit and preparation for the printer. He is a certified pilot, but not longer takes the controls, preferring to fly with Bill Trautwein's private strip behind Barnett's Creek Road, with the former Montana County Sheriff as pilot. He got the name "Airplane Man" from the JP-3 Piper model he built which is often on display in his yard on Sanders Ridge. (If he looks familiar, he is: The eyes remind that his brothers are former Police Chief Kenneth Adams, Campbellsville, KY; and Jessee Adams of Columbia, KY.) Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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