Sunday, April 28, 2019

About Town - 4/28/19

This week's photos from around Columbia...
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 Strollin' down Avenue I

 Time for a trim

 Watchdog watching

 Solar power!

 Flowery frog on the wall

 Lawn mowing at Locust Street Park

 Yee-ha!!!

 Moon in the clouds

 Shadows looming

 Still waiting for our very own Banksy

 Lots o' trash in Avenue H

 This equipment belongs to the Susquehanna River Basin Commission.

The Commission checks the water quality of the Susquehanna from New York to Maryland 26 times a year.

 Didn't Columbia Borough's solicitors have an office here on the 400 block of Locust?

 A few days later - It's still there.

He found one of Columbia's nuts.

 The Columbia Presbyterian Church gave out food to residents on Thursday. The night before, borough officials, local big shots, and Urban Land Institute out-of-towners enjoyed a catered dinner at Columbia Crossing on the taxpayers' dime. (By the way, that $10,000 ULI study didn't tell us anything we couldn't have figured out on our own.)

Watchcat watching

 Ready to fly

 Could have been lucrative, according to this song.

 One man's trash is another squirrel's treasure - or something like that.

 Love in the grass

 Some folks call these weeds "elephant ears."

 Truck 80 returning

 Up on 8th Street

Biking for fitness

 Once thriving in Columbia

 Two of the original bridge light fixtures at Sahd's Salvage

 Has liberty died?

 Snapped off

 Old school way of installing a door frame, big shims and all

 This was free.

 Men at work

 School board candidates

 More sidewalk seats to watch the town go by

New "katerer'?
(3rd & Cherry)

The works of Columbia artist Rosemary Horn Robinson were on display at Mount Bethel today. Her bio and some of her illustrations are shown below.





Saturday, April 27, 2019

Sahd's Salvage celebrates Earth Day 2019

 Ethan the Farmer and Thaddeus the Llama were a highlight of the Earth Day celebration at Sahd's Salvage on Saturday. Other activities included yard tours, an exotic animal show, readings, and auction. 

 Ethan believes in farms, food, families, and freedom and that "We the People" are the fourth branch of government.

He offers many services.  His contact info is shown above.

 Some of Ethan's produce

 Dan Sahd led a tour of the facility.

 Visitors got to see "the back 40."

 Discarded street signs served as points of reference.

 There's Marietta Avenue.

 The claw

 Scrap pile

 Another scrap pile

 Yep, more scrap

Cutting through

 Onward

Shadows

 Reflections

 Lamp shades, of a sort

 Sleigh

 Bells & Candles

 Parking meters

 From the pre-cellphone era

 Potato chip cans

 Old-timey fire extinguishers

 Old-timey firetruck

 Old-timey car

 Chicken Little was temporarily sedate because there was no forecast for falling skies

 Plates from different states

 Time to kiss Thaddeus

 The Cornfish, created by Ethan the Farmer, is made of steel, chicken wire and Bondo putty.

 Long shot of Thaddeus

 Staredown

 Lisa Greybill of the Columbia Public Library read Dr. Seuss's The Lorax to interested listeners.

 Snake skin

Tragically Cute, Charlie Brown, and Coco