Sparksville, KY, geography redux: Bird Road snipped off 2012-05-20 - Sparksville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Mental trip plans to get from the Central Business District of Historic Downtown Sparksville and Dirigo, via Bird Road require recalibrating now, both in time and distance. Ironically, Bird Road is shorter, but the Sparksville-Dirigo route, by motor car, got longer in time and distance with the openings/closings going on along the Chattanooga Highway/Sparksville Bypass/new KY 61 S. Now to get from the Max Rowe place to Cherokee Allinson's Dirigo, one has at least an additional .3 of a mile. The exposed dirt above includes the snipped old Bird Road segment. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Sparksville, KY, geography redux: The Alton Coomer Cut 2012-05-20 - Sparksville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Just when many of us thought we understood Sparksville, it all changed. A bunch of it in the last week. This is now the main - only it looks like - Eastern Entrance to the Historic Business District of Sparksville, KY, through The Alton Coomer Cut; this is the skyline now associated with the eastern terminus of the Weed-Sparksville Road, now at a historic length. For now, travelers on KY 768 have to stop for main street of Sparksville, once a proud marking place, sandwich and gas stop on the then long trek from Columbia to Burkesville, and a shady stop before air conditioning. The main street of Sparksville now stretches only from the Rudy Campbell suburban residence on the north to the W.L. Harvey place on the south. You won't be able to get to Bird Road from the Maxie Rowe place, either. The picture, of course, begs for someone to send old photos of Page & Fletcher's, of the W.L. Harvey General Store, and of Yank Loy's store from its heyday. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Life in the Holler: Honeysuckle 2012-05-20 - The Holler, Old Clearsprings Road, Ozark, KY - Photo by Shamarie Claiborne. Is there anything prettier than a honeysuckle blossom? Or more useful or practical. It's amazing that some gardeners spend half their time fighting honeysuckle, the other half of their energy is spent trying to coax a store-bought flower which is only half as nice from reluctant soil. Besides being nectar for honeysuckle honey - sometimes wish I had time for bees - they lend an incredible perfume to the night air, especially in our secluded holler, where the higher humidity enhances the smell. - Shamarie Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Life in the Holler: Teensy, tinsy, mushrooms 2012-05-20 - The Holler, Old Clearsprings Road, Ozark, KY - Photo by Shamarie Claiborne. I'd like to know more about this miniature fungi. They were growing on a leaf. I'm not into foraging for edible mushrooms - but I would like to know what these little ones growing on a green leaf, are. -Shamarie Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Life in the Holler: A cobbler on the vine 2012-05-20 - The Holler, Old Clearsprings Road, Ozark, KY - Photo by Shamarie Claiborne. I have to laugh, when I hear on food gurus talking on the radio about urban gardens and foraging for food. It's a way of life for frontier life in The Holler. So what if the food pipelines stopped and the stores would be out of food in three days? Here in The Holler, in the land of natural plenty, there's plenty to eat. And sooner rather than later. Betcha these blackberries are coming along much better than they are Topside. Yeah, they are healthy with all their anti-oxidants, but the real reason to eat them is they just plain taste good. - Shamarie Claiborne. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Adair Co., KY: Busy, busy Sparksville Martin port 2012-05-20 - Sparksville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. This Purple Martin Landing Port/condominium was a busy, busy place on Sunday morning, May 20, 2012. Oblivious and apparently unaffected by the road changes and attendant confusements, they went on about their business. The scene is at the new intersection of Bird Road and the Sparksville Bypass/Chattanooga Highway/new KY 61 South. - Ed Waggener Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Cousins Bob and Andi Chelf in Shelbyville, KY 2012-05-20 - Claudia Sanders, Shelbyville, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. Bob and Andi Chelf took a few hours away from their wonderful granddaughters, Lucy Deveney, and Audrey and Molly Lane, to visit ours - Hailey and Tillie Waggener - in Shelbyville on the occasion of Tillie's almost first birthday and Hailey's baptism. Bob is the son of the late Paul Robert Chelf of Knifley, KY; Andi is a native of Bedford, Indiana. - Linda Waggener Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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