Kentucky Color - Double Illumination 2017-04-06 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge. After yesterday afternoon's angry weather had passed, I captured the just passed thunderhead's backside being illuminated by the sun as it was dropping below the horizon. At the same time and much higher up in the Eastern sky, the sun was illuminating the lunar surface of the Half Moon, waxing Full. Glory and again, glory; a double illumination. - BILLY JOE FUDGE Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Small tree down on Holmes Bend Road 2017-04-05 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Graham Waggener. Tonight's storms passed by the Holmes Bend area without much visible impact, except for this downed pine tree on one side of the road and a downed power line directly across the road. Responders were already on the way for the power line at the time this photo was taken. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Jamestown Street at 5:20pmCT, Wed 5 Apr 2017 2017-04-05 - Scene from Lynns Service Center, 118 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, Columbiamagazine.com(c) . Skies over the Trabue-Russell House were eerily foreboding as Columbia was coming under an emergency tornado watch a few moments ago. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Like a sign from above: Witnessed from Jack Smith Road 2017-04-05 - Jack Smith Road, Fairplay, Adair County, KY - Photo Simply Jane Photography (c) . Witnessed while watching the weather this afternoon. I thought it was kind of different. - JANE SMITH Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

13 new KSP Telecommunicators at KSP Training Academy 2017-04-05 - KSP Training Academy, Frankfort, KY - Photo from Kentucky State Police. Kentucky State Police Deputy Commissioner Alex Payne (center) welcomed 13 new KSP telecommunicators to the KSP Training Academy in Frankfort on April 3, 2017 to begin six weeks of instruction. "You job is critical," he told the group. "You are our link to the public and to our units in the field. Information and how you relate that information can have a great impact on a daily basis." The new telecommunicators include (left to right): Bruce Keenon, Post 12; Brandi Chase, Post 6; Whitney Engle, Post 3; Katelyn Morvel, Post 3; Alisha Reed, Post 1; Eric Bruck, Post 8; Bryan Mack, Post 1; Mahala Lewis, Post 12; Kelsey Wood, Post 12; Johnathan Pendley, Post 3; Rebekah Carey, Post 6, Karen Stewart, Post 15 and Melody Brown, Post 1. KSP employs 190 telecommunicators at its 16 posts throughout the state. In 2016, they handled 554,282 calls. April 9-15 is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, a time set aside to recognize the more than 200,000 unseen heroes throughout the country who often save lives on a daily basis. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Redbud time in Green Co., KY - 'A picture of our driveway' 2017-04-05 - Green County, KY - Photo by Paula Deaton. Just wanted to share a photo from Greensburg. This is our driveway. The fence is probably coming down this summer, but it does add a bit of character to the photo. - PAUL DEATON Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Wildflowers of KY: Wake Robin Trillium at The Cut 2017-04-04 - The Cut, Rockland Mill Road, between Knob Lick & Beechville, Metcalfe County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com photo(c). A delightful find, Wake Robin trillium - Trillium erectus - was spotted at The Cut on Rockland Mill Road, Metcalfe County, KY. - ED WAGGENER. Photo Sat 1 Apr 2017. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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