Flowers

Spring has been bursting at the seams the past week, as shown by this Bradford pear tree on South Maple Street. The flowers of Bradford pear trees can been seen throughout Winchester, brightening many neighborhoods with their white blooms.

MUMS FOR FFA The George Rogers Clark Ag Department is selling mums in all colors to support the Future Farmer of America. The flowers are $7 each or 4 for $25. For information, e-mail Shane Wiseman at shane.wiseman @clark.kyschools.us.

Maxine Ethington has been found. We now have closure. The family of Maxine Ethington would like to thank everyone for their concern, prayers, phone calls, cards, and flowers. They also want to the people who came to the funeral home and ministers, Lance Ladd and Odis Clark from Indian Hills Christian Church. Martha Whiles, sister

STANFORD - Recent results of Lincoln County Fair contests, all places listed first through fourth, respectively, are: Little Miss and Mister Little Miss: Olivia Preston, daughter of Corey and Kristie Preston, winner, and Craylinn Miracle, daughter of Billy and Alissa Miracle, runner-up. Little Mister, Bryce Rowe, son of Coby and Erica Preston, winner, and Blaine Sharp, son of Joe and Lisa Sharp, runner-up. Tiny Tots Girls: Tessa Wilkenson, daughter of Denise Vonlinger, winner, and BreeAnn Smith, daughter of Robbie and Kacy Smith, runner-up.

Who knew a butterfly could be called a pest? Known as flying flowers, they're beautiful to watch and I've never had to apply any type of bug spray to keep them from taking a bite of me. But pest is exactly what a Web site at the University of Kentucky labels the black swallowtail. Not as adults - of course, we're supposed to reform from our childish ways by this point - but its caterpillar sometimes feeds on parsley, carrots and related garden plants. Adults feed only on nectar.

I would like to write about the city of Danville.  Danville has changed since I grew up in the area. Some years ago, the City Commission implemented the beautification program with a nice little white truck that somebody drives around.  Once a year, in summer, somebody plants a lot of very pretty flowers around town. It looks great and makes jobs too. And Wednesday at noon the Danville-Boyle County Public Library opened its new parking area that looks superb. With this in mind, I would like to address the superb versus the pretty.

The annual Lincoln County Produce Growers meeting will be Friday, Jan. 18 at the Lincoln County Cedar Creek Sportsman's Club meeting room. The meeting is open to everyone interested in growing flowers, vegetables and fruit crops to sell. The program is sponsored by the Lincoln County U.K. Extension Office and the Lincoln County Produce Auction. U.K. Horticulture specialists and auction representatives will present the program. Educational presentations will cover production and marketing information on melons, tomatoes, corn pumpkins, strawberries and flowers.

Neighbors Robert Palmer, left, and Norm Senkyr of Lynnway Drive took a break from mowing their lawns to visit last week. The two often meet and talk while doing lawn chores. An unusually warm stretch of weather through the end of March and the first of April has many spring flowers blooming early including a group of red tulips on West Lexington Avenue Monday afternoon. Many of the early blooming flowers will have a rough time surviving the next several nights as winter is making a return appearance.

After planting and watering flowers around the headstone, Aerolene Morgerson of Lexington, paused in a moment of silence to remember her daughter, Mary Jo Morgerson, who died when she was one day old 41 years ago. There was a happy ending to the story when her son, Earl Scott Morgerson, was born on the same day her daughter died one year later. Omie Estes placed flowers and an American flag at the grave of her father-in-law during her visit to the Winchester Cemetery during the Memorial Day weekend.

LIBERTY - Iris Nicole Peyton was named Miss Casey County during the 51st annual pageant Saturday night at Casey County High School. She is the daughter of Bill and Beverly Peyton of Hustonville and a freshman at Campbellsville College. She won $300, a one-year membership to Cundiff Wellness Center, tanning package from Jan Spears/Selective Styles, and an all-expense paid trip to compete in the Miss Kentucky Fair Pageant in January in Louisville. Meredith Kathryn Coffey, daughter of Jim and Lydia Coffey, was named first runner-up and received the community service award.