Gradyville Flood of January 13, 2013 - View 2 2013-01-13 - Old Gradyville Road, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Betsy Fausnaugh. Another View of the Flooding on Old Gradyville Road at the convergence of Big Creek and Cool Springs Creek. - BETSY FAUSNAUGH Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Gradyville Flood of January 13, 2013 2013-01-13 - Old Gradyville Road, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Betsy Fausnaugh. Flooding on Old Gradyville Road at the convergence of Big Creek and Cool Springs Creek. Water is over the bridge and flowing through our hay field. Knew I should have built that ark! - BETSY FAUSNAUGH Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Happy Tails: The story of Hazard 2013-01-13 - Sugarfoot Farm Rescue, 860 Sparksville Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Peg Schaeffer. Hazard, upper dog, and his dog pal, Molly, enjoyed a Sugarfoot Farm Rescue stay together. Hazard, was a victim of abuse, on court hold during his time at Green River Animal Shelter and at Sugarfoot. How he met his fast friend and is now at a permanent home was Meant to Be, Peg Schaeffer says, not just a lucky coincidence. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Memories in Birthdays for January 13th 2013-01-13 - Super Walmart, Holladay Place, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Today's birthdays for January 13, 2013 Has a long list - almost three dozen - Birthdays, Anniversaries, and in Memory Birthdays. The names alone conjure up warm images for friends, co-workers and relatives. Today, the list of In Memory Birthdays has many names worthy of more than a pause. Each will have its own separate impact. The photo above is of one of them, Roy Melton, which was posted with this caption: "Columbia Walmart Veterans Day Program, Columbia, KY, taken November 11, 2009 The face of a World War II hero: This photo was taken just 129 days ago, at the November 11, 2009 Veterans Day program at Walmart. The caption read, "Adair County CJE Ann Melton had a special greeting for her uncle, Roy Melton, 93, a family hero and a 93 year old veteran of World War II, at the 11th Annual Walmart Veterans Program at Columbia Walmart on November 11, 2009." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Kentucky Color: Black Vultures 2013-01-13 - Greenhills Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge, Retired District Forester, KY State Division of Forestry. Black Vulture setting in a tree on the bluff overlooking Russell Creek between Green Hills Road and Highway 206. Since they can be predacious I hope he wasn't looking at me although I've put on enough weight this winter to be a little too large for him to prey upon, thankfully. - BILLY JOE FUDGE Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Accommodating breakfast makers 2013-01-13 - 104 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. This breakfast was to me liking, may not be to anyone else's But that's not the point. The point is how accommodating sincere local restaurants are. Not so many rules around here about when you can get the food, or how, so custom is customary, whether at Betty's OKCC, Circle R, almost any country deli in the 7-county area, or here, at Tap's Diner. This one probably may never be repeated by anyone else, but I was glad to get a dreary January morning off to a promising start. After seeing Pen's avocado and scrambled eggs with sesame seeds meal, I asked for the same in a downtown Columbia restaurant - almost in jest. They had avocados in stock, not because of an attempt to satisfy every errant whim of a customer, but because TaP's Gary Paris is partial to them. It was written down with the apology that there wasn't any sesame seed in the house. Much of the rest. Much of the rest I expected to get - the creamy white gravy, the breaded okra, and the canned diced tomatoes (prefer them to all but the peak fresh ones), but was surprised to get those little sandwich sized pancakes they fry. Pam Miller cooked it just right, to specs, down to the melted butter on the soft scrambled eggs. Of course there was fresh hot coffee, too. It was a feast. Didn't eat it all, all, now that I've found out, late in life, that the human race won't improve by my obesity, and that cleaning my plate does alleviate starvation in the world. This surprise was at TaP's Diner, 104 Public Square, Columbia, KY, and similar delightful surprises are available in the regions plethora of one-of-a-kind restaurants. - EW. Paired photo See also Epicurean Kentuckian: Scrambled Eggs and Avocado Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The Whitehurst Diaries: The Barn, up close, Old Grey Homestead 2013-01-13 - Old Gradyville Road - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst. A closer look at the old barn Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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