Tuesday, April 27, 2010

MANSIONS & MOONLIGHT

View to the cupola, below, at Hay House, below, in Macon, GA.
Hay House will have garden tours, market & lectures this Friday 30th, Sat. 1st & Sun 2nd. Mary Braswell will be there with her stone cottages-pots-troughs, below. 2 are in my garden, Mary lives only houses away.

Lucky me, lecturing in the room, below. Luckier, I have the garden tours & market to peruse. I've adored Macon, GA since I went as a child in the 1960's shopping for clothes with my grandmother. Spending summers in Milledgeville with my grandparents during college I went to Macon many times with the boys I dated. Now, I go to Macon with a girlfriend for the Cherry Blossom Festival.



When rain lands upon a certain ridge in Macon, if it falls on the east side it drains to the Atlantic ocean. Landing on the west side it drains to the Gulf of Mexico.



This spring house, above, supplied many of Macon's mansions with ice & cold water during their heyday.
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Can't wait to see Macon's gardens.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara




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4 comments:

  1. Barbara Wells SarudyApril 27, 2010 at 7:19 AM

    Were you too young to meet Flannery O'Connor? Such great short stories... The literature & the gardens of the American South are beyond compare.

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  2. TerryApril 27, 2010 at 8:54 AM

    Have a big time and take some pictures. Did you know that Atlanta has it's own sub-continental divide along Dekalb Avenue?

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  3. FeliciaApril 27, 2010 at 12:10 PM

    I'll see you there and look forward to it :)

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  4. FeliciaApril 27, 2010 at 12:23 PM

    Oh, I dug up all my photos from last year's tour. That tour was groovy because it featured historic homes in the downtown area. I loved living downtown and had a small restored cottage near the off leash dog park. But then I got married and my single girl house was too small for me, two dogs, two cats, and one husband :) Now I live in the suburbs where the gardening is different!

    http://fluffyflowers.typepad.com/fluffy_flowers/2009/05/macon-secret-garden-tour.html

    http://fluffyflowers.typepad.com/fluffy_flowers/2009/05/macon-secret-garden-tour-continued.html

    http://fluffyflowers.typepad.com/fluffy_flowers/2009/05/more-macon-secret-garden-tour.html

    http://fluffyflowers.typepad.com/fluffy_flowers/2009/05/even-more-macon-secret-garden-tour.html

    http://fluffyflowers.typepad.com/fluffy_flowers/2009/05/the-garden-tour-that-would-never-end.html

    And this one is my personal favorite:
    http://fluffyflowers.typepad.com/fluffy_flowers/2009/07/macon-s.html

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