Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Kebab


Chicken kebabs at the St. Andrews Heritage Festival.

Monday, September 29, 2008

St. Andrews Heritage Festival


Serbian dancers at the St. Andrews Heritage Festival this weekend.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Bourbon Barrels


Bourbon Barrels, representing several of the most prominent Bourbon distilleries in Bardstown, Kentucky.

Friday, September 26, 2008

Whisky City Cruisers


The Whisky City Cruisers is a classic car club in Bardstown. They had their cars at the Bourbon Festival.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Bourbon for Breakfast


At the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, we had a pancake breakfast with bourbon butter, bourbon syrup, and bourbon coffee. That's a lot of bourbon for breakfast.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

More Barrel Rolling


And here's one of the women's teams.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Barrel Rolling


Last weekend, the barrel rolling contest was held at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival. This is one of the men's teams. It was just amazing how fast they moved with these barrels, each of which weighs 500 lbs.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Bachelor Broughan


This carriage is approximately 120-125 years old, and was originally purchased from a factory in Paris, France, by Anheuser Busch I. As the name implies, it was a unique carriage designed for the bachelor to be able to squire his date around town in discreet fashion. One of the original features was a communication system from the inside of the carriage to the driver which used funnels and tubes.

Owned and displayed (at the Highbridge Festival) by Jerry Allender of Wilmore, Ky.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Volkscycle


This peculiar vehicle was at the Highbridge Festival last month. I never did get the story on this. Looks pretty weird to me.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Butterfly


A butterfly on the garbage can at Centennial Park, Wilmore.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Pablo


Pablo is the mascot at a restaurant that we ate at a few times, in Paris, Kentucky. He's kinda creepy, isn't he?

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Feather


A feather on the front lawn of the Lexington court house.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Reflection


A dramatic reflection on a building downtown near the old court house.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Parachute


This is one of those strange parachute things they use in elementary school gym classes. Tons of fun.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Fire truck


The Lexington Fire Department brought a truck to the picnic for the kids to play in and on. I love the gauges and dials on the side of a fire truck.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Last day of summer


Today we had the school picnic marking the official end of summer with hot dogs and time playing with friends.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Paul Sawyier Story, Sept 20


The Paul Sawyier Story will be performed at High Bridge in a week. Get your tickets now.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Shadows


I'm always fond of pictures of shadows of common things. This is at Centennial Park, in Wilmore.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Flowers


Flowers at the Lexington Farmers' Market.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Another Fountain


Not one of the three fountains that I mentioned earlier, but still a very cool one.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Seldom Rest


The Seldom Rest farm is on the road to Highbridge, Kentucky. Since I ran Cross Country in college, I just happen to know that it is almost exactly 6 miles from campus. We used to run out there and turn around at Seldom Rest for a 12 mile circuit.

There used to be another farm out there, either right next to it, or close by, called Seldom Work. Unfortunately, it's not there any more.

Monday, September 8, 2008

Choo choo


These strange black things are in front of the R.J.Corman company. If you drive past them inordinately fast, they echo back the sounds of your car to make a 'choo choo' train sound. Not that I've ever driven past there inordinately fast. I've just heard.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

More reflections


The sky, and just a little bit of Highbridge, in the side of a 1957 Chevy Bel Air.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Reflections


The lawn umbrella reflected in a spoon ... in case you couldn't figure out what this is. :-)

Friday, September 5, 2008

Fountain


There are several very cool fountains downtown Lexington. Three that I particularly like. Here's one of them. I don't have photos of the other two, yet.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Vietnam Memorial


Downtown Lexington there's a Vietnam War Memorial, commemorating the local men and women who were KIA or MIA in Vietnam.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Farmers' Market


As I believe I've mentioned before, we're big fans of the Lexington Farmers' Market.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Lexington Courthouse


This used to be the Lexington Courthouse. They've built a new one which is far less attractive, but much larger, and so better serves the needs of the town. This building has become a museum of local history.

I've served on jury duty just once, and it was in this building.

Monday, September 1, 2008

Columns


These columns stand in front of the Paris Middle School. I'm not sure why. Perhaps someone from the area can tell us?