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A Colorful Saturday

Yesterday’s Saturday ended up being such a Colorfully Beautiful day from Dawn till Dusk! (Okay, maybe I wasn’t up at dawn, but that just sounds so poetic to me.) It all started out (post-dawn) when I sleepily turned the corner from my East Broad Street apartment to stroll down Savannah’s main street, Broughton Street, to forage for breakfast. Well, lo and behold, parts of Broughton and nearby streets looked like, well, like this:

What? Huh? At first I thought maybe it was just me (as if often the case). After all, I was not 100% awake but was 100% hungry.

But then I began to see folks who looked like, well, like this:

Is that normal? So, being a college professor and all, I thought that maybe something was up and needed to explore further.

Happy! I’m all about some happy! That’s right up my alley.

The Color Run! It wasn’t me, after all!

Historic district Savannah was transformed with color!

I LOVE participating in road races when you don’t have to run. It’s so refreshing! (And non-perspiratory.)

(I’m not really sure what the above is. Somebody pointed to a boxy-looking thingy, so I stuck my head inside. That has gotten me in so very much trouble over the years.)

Then, exhausted, I ate breakfast at Goosefeathers (go there when you’re in Savannah, near Ellis Square). And headed to the colorful Forsyth Farmers Market.

One the way back home I found my colorful dream vehicle.

I’m off!

Colorful grandtwins Madison and Matthew:

Go Madison, get in front, girl!

Later Saturday evening, I had DELICIOUS and colorful fresh-from-the-market okra-tomato-potato gumbo.

Yum!

And thank you, Lord, for color!

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In Our Own Backyard

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Saturday Salad Joy

It may be well past summer, but I’m still solidly salading away. Here’s today’s Saturday Salad Creation:

Mixed greens, sauerkraut, carrots and fire-roasted corn.

Yum!

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Delicious Joy

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Sidewalk Happiness

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Last Saturday afternoon thousands of folks (including yours truly) meandered through Savannah’s Forsyth Park with heads laid low. Not because we were all forlorn … quite the opposite. We were all looking down–amazed!–at the park’s sidewalks, sidewalks covered with incredible, just-created chalk art.

It seems that sidewalk art is old, ancient even, dating back to the 16th century in Europe (they had sidewalks then?!). When I think of chalk + art, I think of what I do when I’m bored on the driveway:

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(In this piece, my goal was “happy and exuberant but confidently well grounded.” Yes? Work?)

The artists (several hundred) made the Savannah College of Art and Design’s 32nd Annual Sidewalk Arts Festival an event that kept me open-mouthed for over an hour. (Usually only Leopold’s can do that.) (Okay, Jen, maybe Riverstreet Sweets too.)

Armed with a colorful box of chalk …

… and a numbered sidewalk square …

… the art students, portraitists, watercolorists, landscapists, muralists, miniaturists, illustrators, caricaturists and cartoonists went to work.

Here’s Renuka Adhav, a delightful and talented BFA painting student from SCAD Atlanta, whom I met before she started on her piece:

Here I am holding her chalk (I’m not sure why).

A couple of hours later I returned to Renuka’s spot, finding her and … THIS:

Oh. My. Gosh. And guess what? Renuka won Second Place for Individual Student entry! Congrats–you go girl!

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As I walked around, I kept having to remind myself that these paintings were drawn on fairly Rough Concrete, for goodness’ sake, with Big Pieces of Chalk.

Can you believe the quality of these paintings?!

One fascinating sidebar at the festival … the über cool Yarn Bombing. What? You’ve never heard of yarn bombing? Hmm. Okay, neither had I. When one plucky young art student tried to explain it to me, I kept interrupting her and asking, bewildered, “Yard Barbie? Huh? I don’t see her.” And, “What? Yard Bobbing? Like apples?”

According to always reliable source Wikipedia, yard bombing (aka yarnstorming, guerrilla knitting, urban knitting or graffiti knitting) “is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk.”

Well yarn bombing showed up all over Forsyth Park. And it covered objects, such as light poles, trash cans, tree trunks/branches and world-famous bloggers’ heads.