Something's been added at 301 Locust...
...a MonograM, one on each side of COLUMBIA.
Meanwhile, down at the bridge, foundation sleeves - four on each side of the plaza (north and south) - have been placed in preparation for flagpole installation.
Heritage Drive just got a security fence, to the delight of cottage owners, because it makes their private tract even more of a cloistered community.
In fact, here's the bluebird of happiness sitting on the selfsame fence.
Oversized bit ring on South 3rd
A different kind of pipeline project, ongoing for the past several weeks and causing traffic delays on Route 441 through Washington Borough.
Stringing lights at Locust Street Park
The tree lighting will be on Sunday, December 10.
Auction at Hinkle's coming up
8 pumpkins on 4 steps
Even the moose knows which way the wind blows in this town.
More inane graffiti - this time at the old chip factory
Here's a closeup.
Here are some golden icons at Burning Bridge Antiques.
119 years young...
Cortney Fry memorial at the Columbia Presbyterian Church
Stringing lights on the other tree...
...over at Holy Trinity Church.
A long way up
Slab on the 400 block of Avenue G, still for sale - $124,900. It's all that's left of an apartment building that burned down in September 2015.
Triple-crossed
Still not stitched.
More from Morrow
(Metal sculpture by artist John Morrow)
(Metal sculpture by artist John Morrow)
Down on the 300 block of Locust
Watching over the town
Another of Columbia's historic mansions - 855 Chestnut
Missing sign, twisted signpost
A furry fencepost?
Nope, just an interloper at a game of hide & seek
Bad connection at the Water Compnay
Clear water alongshore
A drawing of a moose wearing a blanket?
Steel magnolias
Crafted from teaspoons
Bell tower at NAWCC
Feral on the 400 block of Avenue I
Juvenile red-tailed hawk
Is that a game of tic-tac-toe forming in the sky?
They're still there: unattended gas cans - not empty - on the 300 block of Avenue H.
What could go wrong?
Snowflake but no lamp
Back in the day...
Walking and...stalking?
Go your own way...
There's usually a lot of air traffic over Columbia.
Like the sign says...
Cryptic message above Miles Bixler's office.
(26.2 miles is the distance of a marathon. Is someone telling us they participated?)
(26.2 miles is the distance of a marathon. Is someone telling us they participated?)
Junk pulled from under the street on 7th
Junk pulled from under the street on the 600 block of Maple
A view downriver, with Lloyd Mifflin-like background
Holy Trinity Church
At the Hyperbaric Oxygenation Center on North 6th.
Don't even think of smoking here.
Break-in?
Or break-out?
The loose drawer is on this mausoleum at Laurel Hill Cemetery
141 Walnut Street, currently borough-owned...
...but soon to be a parking lot.
And last but not least...
Things we wish we hadn't heard but were overheard from the booth next to us at Hinkle's restaurant recently:
"I don't know if they'd feel comfortable with her vibrations and vampirism."
"We had a great Thanksgiving: full of controversy, arguments, fighting."
"She went out with a guy and he wanted her to move in with him. On one date. He was 79."
And last but not least...
Things we wish we hadn't heard but were overheard from the booth next to us at Hinkle's restaurant recently:
"I don't know if they'd feel comfortable with her vibrations and vampirism."
"We had a great Thanksgiving: full of controversy, arguments, fighting."
"She went out with a guy and he wanted her to move in with him. On one date. He was 79."
