Seems like just yesterday this was all cleaned out 2020-03-27 - Hwy 206 bridge leaving Columbia, KY - Photo by Mitzi Bault. It took months for the state to come last time this happened but they did a beautiful job of clearing all this last year and with all the rains, here we are again. The pile up blocks kayakers and is dangerous for the bridge. Hope they can come back soon! - MB Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Daffodil Watch 2020: a field full of them! 2020-03-26 - Wayne County, KY - Photo by Mary Ellis. Photographer Mary Ellis sent this field bouquet from her trip to work in Wayne County, KY. She writes, "You've had me on a daffodil watch… noticed these just South of Monticello on West KY 90 a few days ago." She said it didn't need to be printed, but it's just too fine a field of the delightful flowers not to share. - LW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Spring is really here 2020-03-26 - Adair Co., KY - Photo by George Rice. George writes, "Spring is really here, as I sit on my front porch enjoying my paradise view, looking across Chris Watts' and Steve Burton's farms." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Signs of Spring: White henbit 2020-03-26 - Shelbyville, KY - Photo by Pen. There's not an official entry in Wikipedia for this variant of Lamium amplexicaule, which is normally purple, but the small white flowers are showing up in several local yards this spring. (There is a white dead-nettle, but it appears to be a wholly different species, local to Europe and Asia). Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

LWC video demonstrates at home exercises 2020-03-26 - Columbia - Photo from LWC fitness video. Muscles don't start to atrophy until ten days from your last workout, according to Abe Cross, the Director of the Lindsey Wilson Health and Wellness Center, so he advises everyone to keep going in the home. The first video to help demonstrate the use of popular household items to replace weights and weight equipment has been created and uploaded to YouTube. This picture demonstrates one way to keep legs and knees strong using a box with household supplies to create the appropriate weight and then holding it while sitting, standing, sitting, standing, etc. The accompanying article has the link. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

ACSO seizes over $30k in methamphetamine 2020-03-26 - Adair Co., KY - Photo courtesy Adair County Sheriff\'s Office. Adair County Sheriff's Office deputies recovered 1.3 pounds of crystal methamphetamine with a street value of over $30,000, along with scales, pills, and a large amount of cash at a traffic stop in the Snake Creek area on Wednesday. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Signs of Spring: Red Admiral butterfly makes an appearance 2020-03-26 - Shelbyville, KY - Photo by Pen. According to the Wikipedia entry on Vanessa atalanta, "In North America, the red admiral generally has two broods from March through October. Most of North America must be recolonized each spring by southern migrants, but the species over winters in south Texas." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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