Birds of KY: American Goldfinch brunching on Nodding Thistle 2018-06-11 - Along a CM 7-County Byway - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. An American Goldfinch was spotted brunching on Nodding Thistle along a byway in South Central KY. This little yellow bird had his back to the camera as he worked on feeding. Goldfinches share the food from nodding thistle - the bane of agriculturalists, and any human getting in too close contact with bumbly and honey bees - hummingbirds, and many other creatures. A prettier sight, and one not as controversial, is when little yellow finches gather by the hundreds to feast on the seeds of cornflower plants. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Wildflowers of KY: Two-c Yucca and Old Fashioned Day Lilies 2018-06-11 - Rooks Denton Road, Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Yucca is brightly blooming all over the area today - by itself it offers its own beauty, but within a spray of old fashioned day lilies, the bright orange ones most us first became familiar with, they are stunning. These county roadside survivors were found along Rooks Denton Road in eastern Adair County. - EW. Photo Mon 11 Jun 2018. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Mama Duck on Green River 2018-06-11 - Taylor Co., KY - Photo by Pen. Mama duck floating nearby (see related photo: Fresh Ducks on Green River), on a very aptly named Green River this weekend. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

U.S. Hemp Roundtable names Quarles 'Friend of Hemp' 2018-06-11 - Cynthiana, Harrison County, KY - Photo Kentucky Department of Agriculture photo. The U.S. Hemp Roundtable, the hemp industry's leading national business association, presented Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles, Rep. Andy Barr, and Rep. Thomas Massie with "Friend of Hemp" Awards for leadership on behalf of the industry. (Kentucky Department of Agriculture photo) Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Meatskin Road, Adair Co., KY - Ever beautiful farmland 2018-06-11 - Meatskin or Meat Skin Road - aka Weed-Sparksville Road/KY 768, Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. With the "Road Rising to Meet You," Meatskin road is a reminder of former Rep. Tim Lee Carter's favorite poems. And it's a reminder of a wonderful Adair County political leader, the late Fred C. Sexton under whose management the farmland was at one of its peaks. This view is on the westward path of Meatskin Road. One would be hard pressed to decide which direction gives the more pleasing view. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Robert Ellis: Ornate Stair Columns, Columbia KY 2018-06-11 - Theatre Walk off the Square, Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Robert Ellis. There's a pair of columns that support the landing at the top of these steps. This image for me has an old, industrial complex feel and look to it . . . something you might expect to see in any one of the "rust belt" cities of the Northeast. Just to the left of the column, and peering through the steps, you're back in Columbia and staring down Moore's Pool Room! - ROBERT ELLIS. (c) Robert Ellis Woodworking Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Meatskin Road, Adair Co., KY - Day Lily time 2018-06-11 - Meatskin or Meat Skin Road - aka Weed-Sparksville Road/KY 768, Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Since Frances Salyers, co-proprietor of D & F Grocery and Deli in Gradyville, who does everything she can to be a one-person Gradyville Board of Trade & Tourism, raised the question as to how Meatskin (or is it Meat Skin?) Road got the name, this compelling issue has drawn us to go back and see its many wonders. Meatskin Road is a stunningly beautiful stretch of Adair County's longest KY highway. When we made the Trail on Sunday, June 10, 2018, we were haunted by some sadly missed old structures, a bit saddened about how the road has lost some of its most charming roadway because of unfortunate environmental assaults by well meaning road departments, by consequent missing wildflowers and poisoned gleaner crops such as dewberries, blackberries, poke and other edibles once safely harvested along the roadway. We missed many of the old neatly maintained farmsteads. On the other hand, some fabulous new ones have arisen. Houses which, alone, lakeside in Russell County, might cost a multiple of what they do on Meatskin Road. The scene above is of the wonderful old timey, volunteer sort of Day Lilies, the kind we still love best, survivors along the roadside, brightening a stretch of roadway we still love best - a ride my father, E.P. Waggener would have carried the mail on for free, I believe, just to be able to bring its magic to the supper table six days a week. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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