Butterfly visiting Purple Cone Flower 2020-09-02 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Mitzi Bault. Visiting butterflies of all kinds enjoy the flowers in the Bault gardens on McKinley Lane. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Looking southeast toward Fairplay 2020-09-01 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Victoria Pike of Miss Vicky\'s Pampered Angus Ranch. Vicky writes, "I’m on the highest point at the Hunter Place farm looking southeast toward Fairplay. Just finished mowing off the last bit of burrs that had cropped up. Can’t have those sticky things in the girls tails. This plat of land was given to my grandfather Josiah Hunter in the mid 1850s by the Governor of Kentucky in the form of a land grant of 330 acres then. Now only 60 acres." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Fried Green Tomato salad 2020-09-01 - Frankfort, KY - Photo by Amy. A fried green tomato salad from Sage Garden Cafe in Frankfort, KY. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Growing beards for the MT Festival in 1958 2020-09-01 - Adair County, KY - Photo from Mike Watson, loaned and identified by Betty Shirley Knifley. These gentlemen were Columbia's Mark Twain Festival Beard Growing contestants in the year 1958. Front row [seated], left to right: Fred Troutman, Charles Barnes, Joe Russell Barbee, Ivan Shively, James Montgomery, and James Edwin Shirley. Back row, left to right: Morris Moran, Billy Wilson, Billy “Bulldog” Curry, Coy Downey, and Charles Cole. James Edwin Shirley was the winner of the Beard Growing Contest, 1958 and his daughter Betty loaned and identified the men in the photo. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Adair County: Glensfork Post office 2020-09-01 - Adair Co., KY - Photo by Larry J. Smith, General Manager, The Big Dawg, FM 99.9 radio. Larry writes, "A view of yesteryear, Glensfork, KY." Turn left and head to Lure Lodge on Lake Cumberland. Turn right and head to Columbia. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Local efforts for Hurricane Laura Relief 2020-09-01 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Shannon Sexton. Some of the supplies already dropped off for Hurricane Laura Relief. StateLine Steel, 3Trees Church, Unit 2:17 and Integrity Transportation Group are working together to send a semi-truck load of relief supplies to the Louisiana/Texas border to help those affected by Hurricane Laura. You can help by dropping off supplies at any 3Trees Church location during this Sunday's services, in the Captivate Bins. Donations may also be dropped off at StateLine Steel, 912 Greensburg St. Columbia, Monday-Thursday 7:30amCT-3:00pmCT (closed Labor day). Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Kentucky Color: Sunset Over Homeplace 2020-09-01 - Taylor Co., KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge. Bllly Joe writes, "This is a most spectacular last sunset of August 2020 over your Homeplace on Green River! After plotting the direction of the sunset from my vantage point on Tebbs Bend Road, I found that the sunset is in a direct line over Downtown Greensburg. According to the Northern Meteorological Seasons, August 31st is the last day of Summer. It certainly felt like it while taking this picture!" Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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