Living in Paradise, Mo. — for now

Friday, October 15, 2010 | 6:52 p.m. CDT; updated 7:44 p.m. CDT, Friday, October 15, 2010

COLUMBIA — Artist David Spear stood at Ninth Street and Broadway, dipped his paintbrush into a blob of blue and touched up the sky in a painting he completed on a traffic control box in 2007. Overhead, an unblemished blue sky arced over Columbia — the latest in a streak of great weather.

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