Spring Beauty

Tulips - A springtime treat in Kentucky

Pale Pink

Pink is any of the colors between reddish blue (purple) to red, of medium to high brightness and of low to moderate saturation. Commonly used for Valentine's Day and Easter, pink is sometimes referred to as "the color of love." The use of the word for the color known today as pink was first recorded in the late 17th century.

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Man Made Ingenuity - Fort Knox, Kentucky

Footer of an Ancient Bridge
Fort Knox, Kentucky

 The first bridges were made by nature itself — as simple as a log fallen across a stream or stones in the river. The first bridges made by humans were probably spans of cut wooden logs or planks and eventually stones, using a simple support and crossbeam arrangement. Some early Americans used trees or bamboo poles to cross small caverns or wells to get from one place to another. A common form of lashing sticks, logs, and deciduous branches together involved the use of long reeds or other harvested fibers woven together to form a connective rope capable of binding and holding together the materials used in early bridges.

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Pale Violet - Kentucky's Simple Beauty

Pale Violet, Viola striata
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Kentucky Treasure



Viola (US /vaɪˈoʊlə/ and UK /ˈvaɪ.ələ/) is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae, with around 400–500 species distributed around the world. Most species are found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere; however, viola species (commonly called violets, pansies or heartsease) are also found in widely divergent areas such as Hawaii, Australasia, and the Andes inSouth America.
Most Viola species are perennial plants, some are annual plants, and a few are small shrubs. A number of species are grown for their ornamental flowers in borders and rock gardens; the gardenpansy in particular is an extensively used spring and autumn/winter bedding and pot plant. Viola and violetta are terms used by gardeners and generally in horticulture for neat, small-flowered hybrid plants intermediate in size between pansies and violets.

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Sweet Nectar

Spring has Sprung

Barns of Kentucky

                    Eastern Kentucky - February, 2012

A farm often has pens of varying shapes and sizes used to shelter large and small animals. The pens used to shelter large animals are called stalls and are usually located on the lower floor. Other common areas, or features, of a typical barn include:

•a tack room (where bridles, saddles, etc. are kept), often set up as a breakroom

•a feed room, where animal feed is stored - not typically part of a modern barn where feed bales are piled in a stackyard

•a drive bay, a wide corridor for animals or machinery

•a silo where fermented grain or hay (called ensilage or haylage) is stored.

•a milkhouse for dairy barns; an attached structure where the milk is collected and stored prior to shipment

•a grain (soy, corn, etc.) bin for dairy barns, found in the mow and usually made of wood with a chute to the ground floor providing access to the grain, making it easier to feed the cows.

•modern barns often contain an indoor corral with a squeeze chute for providing veterinary treatment to sick animals.

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