Give you the nickel tour of Atlanta

My third arts festival this year, and I think my favorite. It was not crowded at all and the tents were lined up on Virginia Ave and open to the playgrounds. I did see artists that were showing at the other two festivals, so I took photos of work I had not seen yet. I bought a bright blue birdhouse to add to my collection and that makes me happy :)
Here is a link to the Summerfest:
http://www.vahi.org/summerfest.html
The neighborhood:
http://www.virginiahighland.com/

Lunch again w/ Gbear! http://www.43things.com/person/gbear
I get tons of grief about my crazy diet so I thought I would write this up. I had possibly the best lunch I have ever had in Atlanta at the newest vegetarian restaurant in town. I can seriously see myself eating here every week.
http://www.dynamicdish.net/search/label/about

The neighborhood:
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/edgewood/Content?oid=4233

It has been a very hard week for me, probably the worst I have had in years. So it was good to get together today with Gbear (http://www.43things.com/person/gbear) and go to the Inman Park Festival. They have hands down the best arts and crafts booths I have
ever seen. There were tons of bands and sidewalk musicians too.Here is the link to the neighborhood. http://www.inmanparkfestival.org/festival.php

I want to say to my 43t friends that I appreciate everyday the support you give me.

I walked through this exhibit today. I was very impressed with all of the work in the show and the prices were really low. Unfortunately, everything I loved was either NFS or sold :(

I haven’t been to this thing in years because it is usually insane.But this year, it was not crowded at all and I parked only 3 blocks away! The festival includes artists, music and food, there were so many artist tents I didn’t get to see them all.
http://www.dogwood.org/

On Friday night, I am going to see this show at 7 Stages. I am so excited! If I can take a camera in I will try to sneak shots of the stage.
Here is a link to the theater which is located in L5P:http://www.7stages.org/cgi-bin/MySQLdb?VIEW=/view.txt
And a link to the show:
http://www.havertymarionettes.org/Site/The_Phantom_Limb.html

This morning a friend and I went to Kudzu Antiques Market. It is a fantastic place! I love all the booths of clothing, old windows, bottles and signs. They also have an area with folk art.

http://www.kudzuantiques.com/

I have given you guys the tour of this park before, but not with snow! I have not seen snow fall like this here in Atlanta. It’s very exciting for me :)
The sculpture and towers in the park looked so peaceful with the snow covering them. It was a fun afternoon.

http://www.centennialpark.com/events/gallery.html

This weekend, I got to visit an artist who has been making pottery for 40 years. I love the space she works in it’s a community of photographers, painters, mixed media artists, sculptors,musicians and a set/production design company. There is also an urban farm on site!

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Today I met up with Gbear and had lunch downtown.http://www.zocalocreativemex.com/
It was a gorgeous day and the area wasn’t as busy as it normally is. Here are some shots of the CNN Center and a view of some of the downtown skyline. Notice that many of the Westin Hotel’s windows are dark.They were blown out during the tornado.