Epicurean Kentuckian: Fresh Scones 2011-06-16 - Shelbyville, KY - Photo by Pen. Fresh baked from scratch Cinnamon Scones at the coffeeshop in Shelbyville. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Juvenile Tree Swallow 2011-06-16 - Shelbyville, KY - Photo by Pen. A beautiful creature this baby bird is Kentucky born, but the migratory nature will take it away for the winter, but it will hopefully return for the breeding season and summer again next year. Read more about it at All About Birds, Tree Swallow Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Tourism board meets at Edmonton, KY 2011-06-16 - 109 E. Stockton ST, Edmonton, KY - Photo by Gaye Shaw. Those attending the Heartland Waterways Tourism Corridor Board meetingat the Chamber office in Edmonton, KY, Monday, June 13, 2011, were, Front row, from left Pat Durham and Ken Forman, Campbellsville; Vonnie Kolbenschlag, Columbia, and Sue Stivers,Board Chairman, from Columbia. Back row:Joshua Wheeler, Special Projects Coordinator and Maggie Bill, Community Awareness Coordinator from TOUR Southern and Eastern Kentucky Tourism Development Association, Somerset, KY;Patti Richardson , Tompkinsville; Marilyn Clarke, Campbellsville; and Bob Greer. Tompkinsville, KY. Photo by Gaye Shaw- Executive Director Edmonton-Metcalfe County Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Commission, who served as hostess for the Board meeting, serving Blueberry muffins made from the freshly grown berries in Metcalfe County. -Sue Stivers Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Brian Edelen signs as free agent with KC Royals 2011-06-16 - Surprise, AZ - Photo from Campbellsville University. Brian Edelen played two years with Campbellsville University before transferring to Western Kentucky University. The Fisherville, KY, pitcher has just signed a major league contract with the Kansas City Royals. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Great Eats 2011-06-16 - Photo CM Advertising. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair County farm life: A private moment with Ella 2011-06-16 - Adair Co., KY - Photo by Shelby Garmon. Shelby Garmon captions this photo, "Pretty in pink." This is Ella. Family scale chicken raising is on the rise in Adair County, for fun and food. There's nothing quite like an omelet made with brown, farm fresh eggs laid of backyard chickens - or by layers in a palatial hen house with pink nest boxes like these. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Adair Co., KY: Where (almost) every stop is unforgettable 2011-06-16 - Taylor Ford RD, entering KY 206, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Sometimes we wish for more Stop Signs in Adair Co., KY. For more places to linger and enjoy. For a few more forced slowdowns like this one as one enters Liberty Road/KY 206 from Taylor Ford Road, a place where, at noontime, one can remember when an air conditioned ride was provided by open windows and tree canopied lanes, a place where one wishes for a basket, a loaf of bread, and some Smith-Berry Select Dry White Wine, smoked trout, a bit of cheese, a cluster of grapes, and a favorite person to share it with. The stops: This one. The four-way in Sano, where three choices make proceeding. The one at High Street and Greensburg Street, in Columbia, with invitations pulling in every direction. The intersection joining KY 61 from Cedar Grove Road, and where the casual driver can absorb memories in the mind long enough to be moved only by the beep from the only occasional car. Coming to a halt at the Highway 900 at Cundiff, and wondering whether to venture into Russell County, or take the meanders of Melson Ridge RD, west. They're everywhere. The stops which lengthen life and lower dependence on Lisinopril. They do force nostalgic moments, moments to remember the great stops of yesteryear. The most indelible of which may be only in the mind. The time when the stop from West KY 80/the Edmonton RD, meant looking at America's most beautiful farm scene, the Dohoney farm with its perfect tobacco fields, fat lazy cattle, meticulously maintained barns and the towering silo, and the tree line drive to the Dohoney mansion. The only stop its near equal was along the languid route to Lexington, from Danville, where the Chenault Bridge Road joined US 27. Memories of those stops only strengthen the realization that, the price of progress is sometimes very high. That maybe, preservation is the more important goal. That having a slow county means just as much as making Columbia a Slow City. One to enjoy, not race through. -EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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