A Hat Full of Flowers

One more photo from Saturday's Inman Park Festival Parade. This is another member of the Seed and Feed Marching Band, complete with flowery hat!

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One Wild and Wacky Parade

One thing I love about living in Atlanta is the great festivals that occur throughout the year. My favorite festival by far is the Inman Park Festival. Inman Park is a beautiful neighborhood in downtown Atlanta with gorgeous architecture, great restaurants and shops, and very fun residents. Each year the Inman Park Festival brings great artists and musicians from around the country, along with one fun parade.

The festival's parade is full of quirky bands and floats and is a huge draw for the festival itself. This is the drum major for the Seed & Feed Marching Band. Every single one of their band members is dressed just as wild and wacky as she is!

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Whales on the Wall

When the Georgia Aquarium was being built in Atlanta several years ago this large mural was painted on the side of the Underground Atlanta parking garage to promote it. It was painted by Wyland who is known for painting ocean murals all across the world. He currently holds the world record for largest mural.

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View From the Water

This is a view of the Dorothy Chapman Fuqua Conservatory at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The conservatory has several different climate based rooms including a desert house, tropical rain forest, and a room full of orchids.

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Little White Picket Fence

This cute little fence surrounds the Atlanta Botanical Garden's Peter Rabbit area.

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Art Upclose

I took several photographs of this statue (you may remember seeing a wider version a few days ago). I ended up liking the look of this one the best of all.

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Pasti's

A peek inside the dining room at Pasti's French Bistro.

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Storytelling Frogs

This is another photo taken inside the Children's Garden at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The garden has lots of these frog sculpture hidden throughout. This one is reading a story to a young frog. There are seats built around the frogs for readings held within the garden.

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Laugh in the Garden

Similar to yesterday's photo, except this time we're laughing!

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Learn in the Garden

This fun sculpture is within the Children's Garden at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. This garden has several areas designed to teach kids about plants and their uses.

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A Row of Green

These green bottles were sitting on the back of a long seating bench at Pasti's French Bistro. Yummy food at this place!

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Man and a Bird

This statue is displayed at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. I forgot to look for the name and the artist, but I think it's a friar. I'm not sure what sort of bird he's holding.

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A peek at the City

The Atlanta skyline peeking through some trees. This photo was taken at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

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More Moore

There are currently two sculptures of the "Moore in America" exhibition in place. I couldn't find the name of this sculpture, but through searching I believe it is "Large Two Forms."

I plan to visit the exhibition once it opens, so I'll see if I'm right!

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Exhibition Prep

Every year the Atlanta Botanical Garden hosts an exhibition within the garden. This year, the ABG is presenting "Moore in America" consisting of 20 sculpted works by Henry Moore. This is to be the largest outdoor exhibition of Moore's sculptures ever presented. It's scheduled to run from May through October.

This is one of the sculptures being prepped for display in the garden. I suspect this is some sort of multi-sculptured skeleton, as a hand written sign on it said "leg" and the large crate next to it said "head."

You can read more about the exhibition here at the Garden's website. You can also learn more about Henry Moore via the Henry Moore Foundation.

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Lady in the Shade

I really like this statue at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. To me, it seems like she's dancing around with her dainty umbrella.

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Reflections

I really liked the reflections of the clouds on this building. This is the Bank of Atlanta in Midtown. At the right time of day, with the sun setting across town, it's especially pretty.

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How to Make a Tropical Reef

This is a man-made tropical reef at the Georgia Aquarium. The aquarium grows their own coral and uses an enormous filtration system. Interestingly, all the tanks at the aquarium are filtered every hour! That's nearly 8 million gallons every hour.

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Happy Easter!

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Dr. King

This is the grave of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King. Dr. King was born in Atlanta, and the King Center has wonderful exhibits detailing his life.

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Thrifty

I found this sign in the basement of a vintage furniture store in the Virginia Highlands area of town. The store has really great vintage furniture and antiques, specializing in the more retro types of items. The store is called Highland Row Antiques & Vintage Furniture, if you're ever in the neighborhood.

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Time for Doughnuts

This old Krispy Kreme on Ponce De Leon in Midtown still has the fun, old neon sign. It looks neat at night, but not so much on a sunny day. The cloudy sky certainly helped me here. I'm happy I was able to get a decent shot during the day.

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Remnants of Snow

I snapped this picture just as most of the snow had melted around the city. You can see just a small amount left on these Oakland Cemetery statues.

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What's Missing From This Picture?

Saturday was a very rain day in Atlanta. In fact, we had rain most of the week last week. Here, you can only make out two of the buildings which make up the Midtown skyline, and there are several.

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Basking Away

This group of turtles is definitely enjoying the warm, spring sun.

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Danger Will Robinson!

This tree didn't last through our recent weekend storms leaving many in the Ansley Park neighborhood without power. In typical Atlanta fashion, there was not one sign giving a warning that the road was closed.

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Signage

This is the old sign for the Highland Inn. The inn was built in 1927, but I have no idea if this sign was used when it first began operating. The sign currently sits in the lower level of an antique furniture store.

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Let it Snow . . .

It's rare for Atlanta to see snow. So, when it does you can bet on two things: 1) we're outside enjoying it and 2) staple food items will not be found in any grocery stores. :) I took this photo while driving, as seen by the blue tint on my windshield. Still, it's a decent enough picture of the Capitol dome in the snow.

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Campus Art

This piece of art sits on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus in midtown Atlanta. The campus itself is nice. I'd wanted to walk around the day I took this picture, but the rain showers were so frequent that I thought better of it. Another day, I suppose.

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Neat Trees

Looking through to a row of trees in Lullwater Park. Does anyone know what type of trees these are? I like their smooth bark.

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Theme Day: Yellow

This month's theme day is yellow. The Smoothie King in the Virginia Highlands area of Atlanta is one of, if not THE, brightest buildings in the city. It's a fun, bright, banana yellow!

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