It took a village to restore historic building 2018-07-09 - 206 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com. Hours and days and weeks of work went into the restoration of Nanwood Market on the Public Square in Columbia. This view is of last minute work going on before the ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, 6 Jun 2018. Work had to be done around the many well wishers stopping in with questions and support, excited to see this hopeful operation. The feeling that results from seeing this type commitment was put into words beautifully by Jane Smith who is on the Columbia Public Square daily in her work at the Bank of Columbia, "...It makes me smile to drive around it and see lights glowing in the windows at sunset or "We're open" signs instead of blank windows staring back at you. So glad there are people that have a vision and are willing to take the chance at small town business..." - LW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Linda Bailey helping share her neighbor's message 2018-07-09 - 206 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com. Linda Bailey works next door to Nanwood Market and said at the ribbon cutting celebration that wearing the logo of her neighbor is her way of supporting the business. With the Nanwood restoration, three historic buildings in a row on the square are looking great. Linda works with Harris and Harris law firm and her husband Danny is part of Red Brick Studios. Both of those buildings were refurbished by Mike and Laura Harris. - LW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Montpelier, KY area - Crepe Myrtle in 'Cotton Candy' stage 2018-07-09 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Crepe Myrtle is at or nearing its peak in the CM 7-County area, now forming the familiar 'Cotton Candy' clusters weighing heavy over the shrubs, many already bowing low under their loads (especially the white variety seen on E Fortune Street by the Columbia/Adair Chamber of Commerce parking lot). - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Mystery 'UFO' #79588, a bagworm, more clearly, another way 2018-07-09 - Green Hills, Columbia, Adair County, KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge, President, Homeplace on Green River. Columbia naturalist Billy Joe Fudge fully documented his observation of a little known phenomenon of nature, the bagworm at work building its 'castle.' or, in this case, its spacecraft. It took a lot of guesses and a lot of clues, but Jill Petrey finally figured it out, before the rest of us became stressed out, trying to unravel the mystery. Above, the bagworm is suspended by a tiny, super strong filament, not visible in the online rendering, and is very close to the ground. - EW. Photos (c) Billy Joe Fudge. Paired photo - A UFO over Green Hills? Mystery#79558 Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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