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 | Permalink
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 | Permalink
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 | Permalink
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 | Permalink
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 | Permalink
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 | Permalink
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