The Whitehurst Diaries - Tea with the Bluebirds: The scene 2012-05-07 - Old Gradyville Road, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst. Bubbie Maine Coon Cat Gould every bit as notional as his erudite and sophisticated neighbor, Willis Cat Whitehurst, staked out a place at the afternoon tea table - but, sans formal reservation, was courteously and authoritatively removed. -Sharon Whitehurst Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

White Diaries -Tea with the Bluebirds. Honorees 2012-05-07 - Old Gradyville Road, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst. A lazy Saturday afternoon on our front porch was interrupted by a phone call from son-in-law Matt Gould. I was summoned to appear - with my camera - to view baby bluebirds. As an added inducement to bestirring my somnolent self, daughter Gina was planning to serve tea al fresco. -Sharon Whitehurst Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Wildlife of Kentucky: Squirrel at Do Drop Inn 2012-05-07 - Libert Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Bub Polston. This squirrel dropped by for a cool, refreshing drink of water at Bub's Do Drop Inn. -Bub Polston Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

A.L. Sinclair talks with kindergarten children 2012-05-07 - Col. Wm. Casey School, 220 Gen. John Adair DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Alan W. Reed. Adair Schools photo. The Sinclair Doctrine in practice An icon of the PRIDE program's successs in Southeast Kentucky, A.L. Sinclair, Adair County Solid Waste Coordinator regularly puts in to practice what he considers the biggest major factor in ecology: Education. Above, he's talking with one of six classes he and Adair County Judge Executive Ann Melton visited this morning to talk with kindergarteners about the Adair County Recycling Center. Patience and teaching, he says, pays off more than hair trigger punishment. When kids learn about the environment at an early age, they never forget it, he stresses. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Favorite Old Postcard: Tree lined Burkesville ST, Columbia, KY 2012-05-07 - 200 block of Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo from collection of Dr. James Callison. The Courthouse Clocktower can be faintly made out in this scene looking north on Burkesville Street, in the days when pedestrians were shaded and protected by a line of trees, and by the self limiting speed of the automobiles. The street was wide enough to carry all the traffic of today, and there was on street parking for motorist convenience and even more protection for pedestrians. The postcard was submitted by Jim Richards, after Dr. Callison - who graduated from Columbia High School and grew up just one block from the scene on East Guardian Street - sent it to Richards with a note that Western Kentucky University, Dr. Callison's alma mater, had played the University of Kentucky to its closest margin en route to the UK NCAA title in 2012. Clicking on ReadMore accesses a lament for the passing of a tree, to emphasize that desert-like expanses like the Burkesville Street Speedway come about losing one tree at a time. -EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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Ann visits with CWC kindergarteners 2012-05-07 - Col. Wm. Casey School, 220 Gen. John Adair DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Alan W. Reed. Adair Schools photo. In a role she likes best, being with children, Adair County Judge Ann Melton talked with Mrs. Shay Knifley's kindergarten class about the Adair County Recycling Center. She and A. L. Sinclair, the Adair County Solid Waste Coordinator, visited all six kindergarten classes at the school this morning, May 7, 2012. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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