About Town - July 16, 2023

This week's photos of Columbia

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Bike brigade at the cul-de-sac

It was so hot this week that this crow appears to be exhaling smoke.

Even these dogs were trying to beat the heat.

In fact, this skeleton was stripped down as far as you can go, wearing only a grass skirt and flowers.

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The tower at the Watch & Clock Museum

Ground cover

A sort of mini-Stonehenge at Columbia River Park

Yep, they're here.

Late afternoon sky

Finally replacing the utility pole at Commerce & Walnut

Here's a closer look.

The Habitat for Humanity project on South 5th is still moving along.

Escaping the bars in Avenue N

Datestone of the former Union & Fourth Street Market House, now St. Peter's Apartments

Two more beer vats came through town on Friday as they did previously, as Columbia Spy reported HERE.

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One of the hearses from the Postmortem Hearse Club event at Mount Bethel Cemetery on Saturday.

Saturday assemblage

This machine was being used to take soil samples along the Veterans Memorial Bridge this week.

Here are some of the core drills.

Here's the machine in action.

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Must be time to sit a spell.

Surveying the church grounds at 291 South 4th Street

The white house across the river isn't on fire. That's just a cloud creeping up behind it.

Farmall tractor for sale on Bridge Street

Army veteran