About Town

This week's photos from around Columbia...

 Keeping watch

Black-eyed Susans at Columbia River Park

 Bathed in heavenly light - a pic from last week's baptism

 Here's another one.

 During the baptism, this plane flew over...

...trailing this message in seeming mockery of the ceremony.

 Some folks would call this a "tree RAT."

And here's a RAT snake from Thursday's reptile show...hmmmm...

 Let's try this again. This collection box was recently placed on Front Street near the Veterans Memorial Bridge. The one that was stationed at the Columbia Plaza a month or so again attracted all manner of trash and used furniture and had to be removed.

Here's another one - in the parking lot of Little's Beverage.

A pink chimney? Well, why not?

 More inane graffiti...Looks like the "artist's" name is D...something...D...DIMWIT, that's it! 

 A rock of inspiration down by the bridge

 Ethereal paws reaching out of (or into?) the void

A backyard

 Working hard or hardly working?

 Town crier

 Another reason to quit smoking - It makes you too lazy to properly dispose of your empty pack.

 A Canada Goose narrowly avoided a wooden crate as debris floated down the river earlier this week.

 That's one way to haul your blocks.

 Date plaque at Poplar Street School

Manor School's says 1896.

 Trash, over and above

 Digging a hole on Route 462 to repair a broken water pipe

 Second-story door to nowhere

 In the words of Buzz Aldrin: "Magnificent desolation"

Some residents on the 500 block of Walnut have to walk the plank to get to their front door.

No safety hazard here

 The Edible Classroom looking edible

 Quite a yield over at Park School

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 Diggin' it on the 400 block of Locust

 This painting project at the Haitian Maranatha Church on the 200 block of Locust is on hold for now.

 Sweeping up or stirring up on Commerce Street?

 More of the same

 Lights were installed at the parking lot next to Commerce this week.

 Here they are.

They're similar to the ones elsewhere around town.

The elusive American Goldfinch CAPTURED! (momentarily)

 Walking the trail

 A sinkhole beginning to sink?

 Right off Avenue I

 Sittin' on a post, watchin' the day pass by

 Soon to be gone: what's left of a tree at Mount Bethel

 Down on North 2nd: This has been here for over a week.

The sign at River Park states that this parking area is for vehicles with trailers only. Just look at all those vehicles with trailers NOT PARKED THERE...

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River rescue

The mural at Eastern Drillers continues to expand.

Here's another view.

Racers for Trump?

Today, Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said, "Truth isn't truth." So apparently it's a race to the bottom.

 Bald eagle on a Civil War bridge pier this morning . . .

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 Nature's abstract - mud on the steps of the kayak launch area at River Park

 Vintage T-bird parked at the Watch & Clock Museum

Kind of retro-futuristic

 Here's another vehicle - a hearse - for sale . . .