This is the second installment of yesterday’s “musing.”

The corn crops are higher than “knee high” – in fact, many of the plantings are “as high as an elephant’s eye.”

Young lungs play in school playgrounds. Where are the “smoke police?”

Doo-dah, doo-doo on Locust Street sidewalk across the street from Hinkle’s.

Now there’s a BHI Properties branch office right here in Columbia. BHI Properties owns 37 properties in Columbia.

Meanwhile, there are a few vacancies across Third Street from the Market House.

and this place which just opened not too long ago.

But the store will be relocating in an enterprise on the northeast corner of Third and Locust Streets. Looks like the Community Development thing is working out though, doesn’t it?

A couple of steps from Stover’s on North Third this building has a condemned sign on the door.

It’s curious that the second floor air conditioner was running because there’s a condemned sign on the door. Why would a condemned building need air air conditioning?

And a couple more steps north of this building is the old telephone company structure; last year it became the home for the Strube stink-bug production business. There’s some vestige of that operation.

Closer inspection, however, shows the building is empty – again!

– Look for “musings” part three tomorrow for more on doing it right, opportunities, promises, doing it wrong and more. –