March 29th 2007: Atlanta History Center, Botanical Garden, and Piedmont Park

At the Atlanta Botanical Garden, I took many pictures of flowers and of glass sculptures. (The garden was having a special exhibit.) Many of these pictures came out surprisingly well.

As for the movies, the first two movies (1,2) are of a random, well forested highway near Atlanta, providing further proof it's a pleasantly green city.

The third movie is in a similar vein, simply of a smaller street. Again, these are movies of random places where I hadn't driven before -- I simply said, "this is a nice neighborhood," hit record, and kept driving. The atmosphere of this street reminds me of a similar one in Northern Virginia.

Another movie is a panorama of the inside of Souper Jenny, the place where I bought lunch. It has personality.

Much later in the day, I took a panoramic movie of a fairly centrally located section of Piedmont Park, Atlanta's equivalent to Manhattan's Central Park.

The final movie of the day is a panorama of the inside of Swallow at the Hollow, a combination bbq restaurant and folk/country music club, a bit of drive north from Atlanta.

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Breakfast at Hotel
Blueberry bagel and orange juice.
Atlanta History Center
The Atlanta History Center's main entrance.	Face jugs. What fun! View the full-sized image to read a brief history of face jugs.
Souper Jenny
Souper Jenny is located in a strip mall, like most stores in Buckhead and in Atlanta in general. (That makes things sound bad, but, as you can see, it's pretty pleasant.) See the tree near the right side of the image where the two rows of stores meet? That's where the next picture was taken from.	The aforementioned courtyard. I sat here to eat my lunch.	My lunch of tropical gazpacho, multigrain bread, and fresh fruit.
Near the Atlanta History Center
Swan Woods, the secluded forest behind the History Center.	Another picture of Swan Woods.	Swan House, a traditional plantation house.	Swan House's elegant staircase. It's easy to imagine a southern belle gingerly descending the stairs.
Swan House's boxwood garden.
Atlanta Botanical Garden
Atlanta Botanical Garden's main entrance. I guess if you charge an entrance fee, you need to funnel everyone through a building.	A large sculpture in the main courtyard near the entrance.	The Great Lawn.	Glass sculptures were planted throughout the garden. These are delicate stick figures.
Dancing faeries.	Excellent. View the full-sized image to see the fuzz on the flower. I'd love to know the real names of all the flowers photographed here. If you can identify any, please tell me.	More flowers.	A glass flower.
Many glass flowers grew in this section of the garden.	This flower looks like a face. (It helps if you look at a larger version of this image.) The purple part clearly has eyes and a mouth. Maybe the petals are flaps an animal puffs up when in danger.	An elaborate glass flower. Excellent, because of how the leafy base matches the leafy, distant forest.	Another glass flower.
A half-man, half-plant glass sculpture.	Another mythical glass being.	A series of yet more glass figures.
		Excellent, because of the way the glass flowers match the background.