Sun in My Belly curry salad and lavender biscuit

BLFried Green Tomato

 Georgia Aquarium's beautiful tropical tank with wave action

 Penguins up close and personal

 Sea Otters are so fast

 A territorial Giant Pacific Octopus attacking invading the tank for a cleaning. The octopus wrapped her entire body around the diver until staff eventually gave her a puzzle toy with food inside for her to solve.

 Very pregnant Beluga Whale...

...acclimating to the presence of divers during the birthing session. 

 Ocean Voyager - The Main Event

 Diver speak... Ok? Ok!

 Into the drink with Whale Sharks!

 S.O. got the backstage tour of the facilities while I was diving.

Delias's Chicken Sausage manage trois style. Home of the cake shake. 

Hush Puppies

 Scallop Crudo

 Breakfast at Bread and Butter Cafe

The most perfect french omelet and hearty granola and yogurt

 Little Lamb at the Smith Farmhouse 

 Swan House with Salute for those of the Districts who gave their fictional lives to topple Snow.

 Recognize this Dining Room?

 Architect, Philip T Shutze's, original Sketch

 Shutze's whimsical collection of animal statues. 

 Atlanta History Center Folk Art Exhibit

 Civil War Exhibit

 Mary Mac's Tea Room - A place where respectable Southern Ladies apparently used to Hang Out.

Complimentary Pot Likker

 grits and shrimp, squash casserole, collards

 Famous fried chicken, our favorite fried green tomato, and mac n cheese

red wine bread pudding and ice cream

 Stickman and Mini Stickman found on a walking trail

 One of many murals all over Atlanta

 Homegrown's famous "Comfy Chicken Biscuit" and the very fluffy, with an almost tapioca flour texture, Chocolate Chip Pancake. 

 Jazz in the Homegrown backroom Five and Dime.

Humble tombstones of the fallen Confederate soldiers. Elsewhere in the cemetery, the subdued "Lion of Atlanta" (constructed soon after the war in 1894) and the towering Civil War obelisk are symbolic contrasts to the other monuments in the nation depicting Union war heroes erected much later in the following century.

 Jewish Quarter with crowded graves. The African-American section is mostly grass with few markers, whereas beautiful mausoleums crowded the "Slave" section, where the originally buried bodies of African-Americans have since been long removed. Begs the question, if history is written by the victors, who were the real winners in the American civil conflict?

 The new Martin Luther King community center under construction.

Messages from the Street and Ebenezer Baptist Church

"Contraption" and "This Do in Remembrance of Me"

 MLK Memorial

 Bust-a-Move and cocktails at the Joystick Game Bar

 artichokes, sopressata, farro, basil, red onion, calabrese chili, almond picada

 Whipped chicken liver, pickled cherries, lemon, basil, toast

 baked cobia collar, panzanella tomato, peppers, olives, fried bread

 carolina golden rice, lump crab, corn, fermented lemon, shishito, benne seed

 earl grey cake, raspberry sherbert, toasted pomegranate cake, milk crumb

 cinnamon sorghum pie, whipped cream, stewed apples, pecan praline crumb

Talat Market Popup at Gato - Thai Food with the Southern Goods

 Yom Sum O - Pomelo Salad, Betel Leaves, Pecans

 Geng Jeut Won Sen - Chicken Soup, Day Lily Shiitake, Mung Bean Noodles

 Gung Foi Tort Geng Dang - Fried Shrimp and Sweet Potato

 Kanom Saku - Durian Tapioca Pudding

Our Edgewood Townhouse AirBnB Decor

 Michaelyn

... and back home again