Near the top of Rockcastle County's Brushy Creek watershed, Climax Spring water spills over a small waterfall. The bottling plant is nearby, as is a public spigot for local use.
A longing for the good old days of the 1950s fills a wall next to the drive-in window of the Dari De-lite in Brodhead, a small town situated on the western edge of Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
A stylized quilt portrait graces the wall of an old brick building in downtown Mount Vernon, venerable county seat of Kentucky's Rockcastle County.
Appalachia - Science in the Public Interest, is a Kentucky-based nonprofit focused on learning and teaching how to live on Earth in ways that are simple, healthful, and sustainable. With offices in Mount Vernon and a residential community on the Rockcastle River, ASPI is a regional leader for solar energy use, non-polluting farming and gardening practices, and as a partner to help communities solve water pollution problems.
An early 1960s article in a Chicago newspaper, written by the young Hunter S. Thompson, opined that the Renfro Valley Barn Dance, now Entertainment Center and KY Music Hall of Fame and Museum, would be a total failure. Today this charming mix of country and city attractions lures tens of thousands of new and repeat visitors off I-75 at Mt Vernon KY to hear new and venerable country music shows and acts. Stay at nice motels, ramble the old-timey streets, eat ice cream and fudge, and explore re-created pioneer homesteads.
A drive along Rockcastle County's smaller roads means cruising the serpentine curves atop steep ridges with rapid plunges into cool green valleys.
Rockcastle County's narrow valleys shelter beautiful wildflower meadows, such as this one at the Great Saltpetre Cave Preserve.
That may be a solar panel but this is an anti-green, Fascist landscape.
In contrast to Tibidabo's glitzy Christ-topped Sacred Heart Church, let us be thankful that this creepy furtune-teller is safely imprisoned in a glass case at Tibidabo's Museum of Automatons.
Tibidabo Mountain's name comes from the Latin rendering of words with which Satan tempted Jesus? What kind of name is that for a mountain topped with the spectacularly sacred, set cheek-by-jowl with the wildly profane? Here is a photo of the sacred. See next photo for a hint of the profane, or downright creepy, side of the Tibdabo entertainment district.
Hilary Lambert has been a member since 3 March 2008 and goes by HilaryLambert.
Currently in Ithaca NY and Lexington KY.
I am a geographer by training, and was a seasoned traveler at a young age, thanks to an adventurous family. Born in Ithaca NY USA, by the time I was 18 I had spent a year each in California, Norway, Sweden and the Philippines; had crossed the Atlantic on passenger ships five times, and had cruised the Greek islands and the south China Sea. Today I focus on adventure underground, and just got back from ten days in Barcelona. I have many tales to tell.
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