Tillie made a visit 2014-08-04 - Fortune Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Granddad. Tillie, now totally three now, paid a busy visit to Great Mema, Mema and Granddad yesterday. She explored the house, found secret places only her dad knew about, added art to the Kids Only art 'studio', sculpted Play Dough, sang one of her new original songs, and above, demonstrated her ready-to-catch stance for a miniature football her Dad would throw. She also examined every single piece of playground equipment at Jim Blair Park with excited approval each, before leaving with her Dad, Tom Waggener, for home in Shelbyville. - GRANDDAD Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Christ in a Manger IV 2014-08-04 - Fairplay, KY - Photo by Lila Loy. The flower is fully open and the manger scene, the Nativity, can be seen. It will close before daybreak and then wilt. The plant can survive in Kentucky weather but needs to be taken inside during the colder months. It will be another year before the phenomenon will happen again. The flower blooms only this one night then it dies. They also smell wonderful. - Lila Loy Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Christ in a Manger III 2014-08-04 - Fairplay, KY - Photo by Lila Loy. A short while later, the flower opens to this stage. - Lila Loy Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Christ in a Manger II - It is beginning to bloom 2014-08-04 - Fairplay, KY - Photo by Lila Loy. The Christ in a Manger plant blooms only at night, and only one night of the year. We got this picture just as it was beginning to open. - Lila Loy Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Christ in a Manger I 2014-08-04 - Fairplay, KY - Photo Lila Loy. This plant is called Christ in a Manger. It is an heirloom plant I got from the late Pearl Gadberry. - Lila Loy. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

At Blackaby Hill Farm: better, happier chicken farming 2014-08-03 - East Adair Co., KY - Photo by Tim Blackaby. Jason Blackaby opens up the mobile chicken house for the chickens to get another free range day in the pasture. Blackaby family members Tim & Lisa, and Jason, their son, take turns selling Adair County grown meats at area farmers' markets. There is a definite taste and texture difference, well worth, we think, the slight premium to get a taste some can still remember from when their mothers served fried chicken which just a short time before had been running around the back yard. We didn't eat as much meat then, but what we did eat had taste and texture. The quality difference with fresh farm raised vegetables is now a widely known and accepted; the locally produced meats are still something of a well kept secret, but not for long, we suspect. We've had chicken and eggs from the Blackaby's, and lamb from Knifley twice from Mike Meyer twice. Last night, a very few ounces of filet mignon was used in a stir fry. Amazing stuff. The lamb chops had a very mild flavor, the filet mignon was perfect as almost a condiment, and both were almost tender enough to cut with a fork. The real cost? In the end, for us, somewhat less for the farmers markets meats. We eat less than half the meat, it's that satisfying. And we think it's healthier. - Ed Waggener Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

A far less traveled path 2014-08-03 - Shelby Co., KY - Photo by Pen. Two trails diverged in the woods. Graham found a third, far less traveled way. Don't know how Robert Frost would have put this situation into verse. Granddad Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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