Scenic Adair Co., KY: Happy Redbud on Harrodsfork Loop 2012-03-18 - Harrodsfork Loop, South Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. March 17, 2012 seemed a bit early for Redbud, but even on the highland of Harrodsfork Loop, redbuds were in bloom, but with the promising of peaking still a few days off. -Ed Waggener Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Adair Co., KY: Acquiescing for photo 2012-03-18 - Harrods Fork Circle, Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Quite the darling of Harrods Fork Loop, Sunday afternoon, the youngster quietly made eye contact and posed for his family portrait on Saturday afternoon, March 17, 2012. Harrods Fork Loop, now a full fledged Adair County Road Department scenic byway, is a cameo visit to the past, a brief respite from the modern more hurried world of the new KY 61 south, between Sparksville and Breeding, KY. It's a full featured road, complete with dramatic views from a beautiful church and cemetery, a balance of farm land and forest views, red bud lanes, and heritage flowers from abandoned homesteads. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Great Trees of Adair Co., KY: Telsie Fudge Osage Orange 2012-03-18 - Toria Road, near Chestnut Grove, Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. It's still thriving: the great Telsie Fudge osage orange tree on Toria Road, is a beautiful sight in all seasons, though this photo does more to take in the comforting charm of a glen saved from time than to spotlight the tree. The photo was taken Saturday, March 17, 2012. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Closeup of Zacchaeus Tree. or Is it the Sgt. York Sycamore? 2012-03-18 - Photo by Ed Waggener. Which is it? Gunsight? or Eye of the Needle? A sermon? or Country Music theme? . The unusual formation in the sycamore tree, as seen from the Joe Lynn/Susan Lynn, Barbee and Barbee-Harvey, respectively, barbecue emporium, could be taken for a botanical gunsight or maybe the eye of a needle. Either way, it's a worthy landmark, certainly deserving of a special entry whenever the Columbia Inventory of Trees is completed. Click to related photo: Gunsight, or Eye of the Needle Sycamore Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Gunsight, or Eye of the Needle Sycamore 2012-03-18 - Photo by Ed Waggener. Daydreaming after a big BBQ lunch at Ol' Joe's B&B Que and during a lull in the story-telling, one can't fail to see the unusual formation in the sycamore tree looking out Ol' Joe's front window, across Williams Furniture to the bell tower on the Russell Heights Baptist Church. It's appropriately dead center in the middle of the photo, at 2:30 o'clock from the bell tower. Click to related photo: Closeup of Zacchaeus Tree. or Is it the Sgt. York Sycamore? Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Whitehurst Diaries, Old Timey Pear, March, 2012 2012-03-18 - Old Gradyville Road, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst. Old Timey (or Kieffer) Pear Trees lack the symmetry of the ornamental Bradford Pear, instead flinging out branches which scrabble wildly at odd angles. -Sharon Whitehurst Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Whitehurst Diaries, Old Timey Pear, March, 2012 2012-03-18 - Old Gradyville Road, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst. Early blooms: Last year the blossoms came too early and were nipped by frost. We hope the towering centenarian will be loaded with fruit this season. Sharon Whitehurst Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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