Concrete stone riprapping stops undercutting of KY 76 2012-02-21 - Knifley, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. It's not overwhelming, but it's a big enough project it's difficult to overlook: The Kentucky Highway Department has constructed a long rough cement, stone riprap alongside Elkhorn Road/KY 76 in Downtown Knifley to stop the small stream - couldn't find out if it has a name - from undercutting the road. The view above is looking east, from the entrance to a barn on the property of Gabehart Farm & Stables, behind which stands the boyhood home of Knifley's first rocket scientist, Richard Hovious. Photo taken Saturday, February 18, 2012. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Kentucky Color: Snow in the highlands 2012-02-21 - Looking at Bird Ridge, South Adair Co., KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge. A slight change in elevation can mean huge change in snow fall: A little change in elevation can make a big change in the amount of snow one receives. While the temperature in and around Columbia Sunday, February 19, 2011, was 33 the temperature in the Sparksville area which is a couple hundred feet higher in elevation was 31. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Jerry Holt presents Rotary flag to speaker Andy Olson 2012-02-21 - Roberta Cranmer Dining Center, 430 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ellen Zornes. Jerry Holt, Columbia Rotary Club President, presents Trooper Andy Olsen, State Police Post 15, Columbia, KY, with a Columbia Rotary flag after Trooper Olsen spoke to the club about bicycle safety. Gary Rose and Michael Hinton, well known local bicycle enthusiasts, were also on hand to discuss bicycle safety. Each international Rotary Club has its own flag depicting important landmarks in its city or town. Our club chose the Historic Adair County Courthouse Clock Tower and the Lindsey Wilson College Begley Chapel as places of prominence in our community. The Rotary Club meets each 2nd and 4th Tuesday at Cranmer Dining Center, 430 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY. New members are welcome Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Chris Wilson, Golden Rule Wilson, win big Statewide awards 2012-02-20 - Kentucky Dam Village, 166 Upper Village Drive Gillbertsville, KY - Photo photo courtesy GRW Realty & Auction. Gracie and Simon Wilson hold their dad's statewide trophies won the weekend of February 11, 2012, at the Kentucky Auctioneer Association's Convention at Kentucky Dam Village State Park and Resort,166 Upper Village Drive Gillbertsville, Kentucky. The agency won the state's top award for Best Institutional Promotion (color) Category, and Chris Wilson, above right back row, was Reserve Champion in the Champions of Champions auctioneering competition. On the left back row is Jill Wilson, his wife and the mother of Gracie and Simon. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Republican Rooster n Dumplings? or Blissful New Deal? 2012-02-20 - Beatiful Joppa, KY - Photo by Maury Lewis. Will this handsome, spirited creature be given the life of a free range lover, a Bliss Filled life on a loving progressive Democratic Farm, or will he get et by some bloodthirsty Republican outfit? Maury Lewis wants shed of him - either way. Says he's mean. No doubt she means business. He's caged, ready for take away. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Adair County, KY: View up Hood Cemetery Road 2012-02-20 - Hood Cemetery Road, off Pelham Branch Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Across Pelham Branch Road from the Richard Smith Family Foot Bridge is a remarkable scene, the gracefully curving Hood Cemetery Road. It's a County Road, but in Adair County, it's kind of a given that one respects the privacy of the residents and only goes to visit the cemetery or close friends and relatives along the way. Still, it's hard not let the imagination of the incredible vista from the top provide the impetus to climb it. There's probably not a harder hill for a hiker or a cyclist in Adair County. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The View from Richard Smith Family Footbridge 2012-02-20 - Pelham Branch Road - Photo by Ed Waggener. It a peaceful view upstream from the Richard Smith Family Footbridge, right now, but later, the spring rains can turn the little branch - which joins mighty Russell Creek just a few yards down - into be a deadly torrent. The stream occasionally floods Pelham Branch Road, the road above. David and Margaret Smith Harden and their grandson Blaine recently rebuilt the footbridge from which the photo was taken. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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