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]
Columbia Spy 