Youth Turkey Season: Tristan Murphy and Opening Day Turkey 2012-04-08 - Sullivan Farm, - Photo by Michael Sullivan. Tristan Murphy, behind turkey, on his second, successful, youth turkey season, on opening morning. The gobbler weighed approximately 23lbs & had 10 1/2 in beard with 1in spurs. The bird was taken on the Sullivan farm with his dad, Jr. Murphy.- Michael Sullivan Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Lindsey Coach Jonathan Burton congratulates Manuel Alonso 2012-04-07 - Egnew Park, inside Lindsey Wilson Sports Park, 820 Hanley Lane, Columbia, KY - Photo by Chris Wells. Lindsey Wilson College. Manuel Alonso receives congratulations from Blue Raider Baseball Coach Jonathan Burton following his first LWC home run today, Saturday, April 7, 2012, at Egnew Park. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

What's not there now: Jamestown Street, Russell Road 2012-04-07 . Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Sweet Locust Blossom Time: Corner E. Guardian, E. Frazier 2012-04-07 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. A large, solitary locust sings its springtime stanza solo - to borrow a descriptive line from Bob Chelf, at the corner of E. Guardian and E. Frazier Streets at the top of Graded Hill. It's located in a fashionable neighborhood with ongoing renovations, several of them quite extraordinary. The home was once Dr. Alan Mercer's clinic. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Ila Jean Stearns, 66, Adair Co., KY (1946-2012) 2012-04-07 - 210 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY - Photo from Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home. Ila Jean Stearns, 66, Adair Co., KY (1946-2012) Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Locust Blossom Time: Beautiful show behind Dollar General Store 2012-04-07 - 806 Russell Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. A small copse of large locusts serve as a backdrop for the Dollar General Store on Russell Road in Columbia, KY. The photo was taken April 7, 2012. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Sweet Locust Blossom: A time of spring transplanting 2012-04-07 - 922 Russell Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Soon the low tables will be all filled with flowers, shrubs, herbs and plants. Columbia Landscape and Nursery was open this morning, Saturday, April 07, 2012 in a scene dominated by the huge locust in full bloom behind the greenhouses. Suzanne Ince, who was in charge today and was moving the plants into sales areas. Already, the store has cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower plants ready to go. Funny, there's never been a town wide move to plant more locust trees, and maybe they aren't needed. But all the rest of the flowering trees, strive as they may, never put on the dazzling show locusts do when they bloom as they did this year. And they come with a special added bonus: a delightful fragrance. Someone ought to bottle it and sell it. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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