About Town - 11/4/18

This week's photos from around Columbia

 An ET visited Columbia, and - you guessed it - no intelligent life here.

 What, already?

(Burning Bridge Antiques)

 The still-troubled and still-troublesome 300 block of Avenue G

 That's right. Fido might not be able to tolerate the THC.

 At work on the 300 block of Cherry

 At work on the 500 block of Walnut

 Doing burnouts!

Not really - It's just steam from water on the roller.

 And back again

 Nekkid lady pondering an ibis

(100 block of Walnut)

 Depth of field

This church recently celebrated an anniversary of some sort.

 Here's its datestone.

 And here's the church building.

 Back on Walnut Street - a compact steamroller

 Dueling steamrollers!

 Big men casting long shadows

 Keeping an eye on things

 Spreading the asphalt

 Evening it out

Reaching for it

 On up the street

 Both sides now

Three on one

 Watch out for that car!

Here's the finished product.

 But the sidewalks . . . 

 Expansion joints going every which way

Here too - always above the misaligned drain pipes.

Is this to spec?

 The sun recently set over in Wrightsville.

 There's a canoe stored under Columbia Crossing.

 The dog poop bag dispenser is down.

 Interesting lawn ornament on North 6th

 Cockscomb at NAWCC

 McClintock Clock - tick-tock

(NAWCC)

 So, the driver on the right slipped by on the inside to make a right turn as the other driver was about to make a right turn.

 Here's an old piece from the Godwin-Falcon Fire Department.

 Google tells us the department is in North Carolina.

 Chickens in a basket or something

(Tollbooth Antiques)

 Chimney fit for a king

(3rd & Chestnut)

 West side of the Hermansader House

 An all-seeing eye can be seen there, too.

 Filling in the beauty strips with dirt on Walnut

 She whipped the leaf blower around too fast and ripped a hole in the space-time continuum.

At work downtown

 Bursting forth on Chestnut

 "SMUCK FOR CON"

Seems fitting somehow

 Oversized pothole at 2nd & Perry

 Echoes of Halloween

 Uh . . . how about NO?

 Beady-eyed crow

C'est la vie

C'est la mort

 You don't want Fido to be locked up, do you?

(Janson Park)

 CHS

Sorry, but those Beatles lyrics still keep echoing:

"I used to get mad at my school,

The teachers that taught me weren't cool,

You're holding me down, turning me 'round,

Filling me up with your rules!"

 Two fighter jets flew over on Thursday afternoon - way up - and carrying missiles.

This is a closer shot of the same jet.

 Scarecrow

(Cherry Street)

And its little brother - and a littler brother?

(North 5th)

 Animal shelter progressing

 Cute couple

 T-boned?

 ONE WAY: LEFT

 Neatly coiffed alleyway

Who mows it?

 Skeleton taking a load off

 Another peek-a-boo window

(600 block of Chestnut)

 Time to pick up the mail - all of it - at the apparently empty apartment house at 2nd & Walnut.

 OVERSIZE LOAD on Chestnut (Route 462)

 Finally, some activity at Hickernell's office, at least outside it

 A load of asphalt with nowhere to go

It ended up here, next to the parking lot on Bank Avenue.

(Can you reheat cold asphalt?)

 Lamb Chop hung out to dry

 A new fountain at Columbia River Park

 Here's another view

 There's also a lower access for Fido to wash down that THC.

 The Wright Mansion, autumn-shrouded

 Looking spiffy at Art Printing

 There goes Andre!

 Sign down!

(Commerce Street)

 Runners - one locally famous

 Heron in hiding - sort of

 Jet following the jet stream

 Something with muddy paws walked on this rail.

 Drain grate

 Glued to the TV, as many folks are.

 Buckeye flutter-by grounded

 That's a mighty tall flagpole, that flagpole is.

 Hood ornament

More ghost signs - The one at the top reads "COLUMBIA."

(Bootleg Antiques)

Here are a few submitted photos:

 A Knox Box taped shut!

 A pipe is sticking out of the sidewalk.

 Oh yes it is.

 And the mattress collection continues to grow - now with an old-time TV.

 Shaky fence with weeds - and a multi-street street sign.

The photo intrigued us enough to take a closer look and sure enough, there it is.

Here's a shot submitted by Patrick "Phos" Martin. He explains that it is a composite of 16 separate shots taken from a tripod set up in the middle of Bridge Street several years ago. Wow! Even the ghost sign reading "MYERS MACHINE TOOL CORPORATION" is visible.

Nice work!