Sunday, August 5, 2018

About Town

This week's photos from around Columbia...



A workman reconnects lines at 9th and Ironville Pike Saturday afternoon.
A broken utility pole on Ironville Pike next to this one brought down lines and a transformer Friday night/Saturday morning.

Here's a long shot of the scene.
[Submitted photo]

 There's a new gallery sign on the 400 block of Locust

 Down at Columbia River Park: pondering the rain garden

 Detective - possibly detecting - but not the yellow line

 A rare specimen of parrotus metallicus
Note the beak and feet.

 Painting pillars at the library

 Norfolk Southern holding up the works

 CBFD hosed the mud off the docks at River Park this week.


This is what's left of the former Vigilant Fire Company. 
Rumor has it that it will become an animal shelter, but whoever is in charge of the project seems to be making haste slowly, like a lot of projects in town.

Here's a "closer-up" view. 

 Visitors to this dock may have been stumped.

Black-eyed Susans at River Park

 Traffic counter on Bridge Street

Sunflower

Visitor covered in pollen

This sunflower stood about ten feet tall.

 Police responded to a person down on Bank Avenue

 Down at the Von Hess building . . .

 ...tree trimming

 Down at 2nd and Chestnut

 Now OPEN

 Paving Commerce Street

 Along for the ride

Fixing the sign

 There, that's better.

 No parking along the yellow line, if you can find it

 In the window of Burning Bridge Antiques

 Illegal turn at 5th and Chestnut 

Surveying equipment at 4th and Locust

There must be surveyors about.

 There they are, surveying - or something. 

Mystery man working at Hinkle's

CAP's in town.

 Staying informed

A look heavenward

 Fresh coat of paint at Royer's

 Ridin' in the back seat

As of this posting (Sunday, August 5), the trail is still closed due to last week's rock slide.

 Up at the track

 Sacrilege!

 On point

 More mess on 9th

 Comin' at ya!

Doors, closed but not locked

Chairs, completely ventilated 

Rust is all the rage this year.

A batch of balusters

 Grinding wheel - or 19th-Century exercise bike?

Terra cotta pipes

Batten down the hatch to keep your brew secure.

Wagon wheel, minus the wagon

 Blue ladder - just because

 The sign seems appropriate.

 Grave marker of Jimmy Sheckard, major league baseball who Columbia claims as its own. Columbia Spy reported on a memorial dedication to Sheckard HERE.

 Someone left this baseball there.

 Vermin undermining
Groundhogs are digging around graves at Laurel Hill. 

No sign needed - Who would enter such a dark, forbidding place anyway?

The old silk mill, now the site of the Turkey Hill Experience.
[Submitted photo]

Horn Chevrolet,  now the site of the Cycle Den
[Submitted photo]

Saturday, August 4, 2018

Pole broken, transformer down on Ironville Pike

Saturday morning:  A utility pole is snapped off and a transformer is on the ground on the first block of Ironville Pike near the intersection with North 9th street.