The World's Most Beautiful Places
Early morning at a famous Kentucky thoroughbred horse farm in Lexington, Kentucky during a beautiful sunrise, as the fog lifts, and slowly floats across this region’s fields of bluegrass. Home of the Kentucky Derby, horse racing is a billion dollar industry in the state, bringing horse enthusiasts and tourists from all over to watch the beginning race of the Triple Crown.
An old abandoned barn located in a rural part of Gallatin County, in northeastern Kentucky, at the recently created Hartig Park & Wildlife Reserve. The nearest large town is Warsaw, and the park sits between the major cities of Louisville, and Cincinnati. Hartig offers numerous nature trails, historical buildings like the barn, camping, and a great vista of the Ohio River looking north into Indiana.
An old bourbon barrel from the Woodford Reserve Distillery, painted and turned into a decorative chair. Seen in Versailles, Kentucky. Bourbon is the signature liquor of Kentucky. The first Kentucky bourbon dates back to 1795, when Jacob Beam debuted his “Old Jake Beam Sour Mash’. Seven generations of the Beam family have been involved in the production of bourbon since that time.