savannah, georgia

welcome to the last blogpost on my summer southern vacation: savannah, georgia. We spent two full days exploring this old (founded in 1733!) beautiful city's historic district, constructed around 21 squares of landscaped green spaces, punctuated with historical statues and monuments. The city is very proud of its famous savannahian Juliette Gordon Low the founder of the Girls Scouts and its prominent role in the book and subsequent movie "midnight in the garden of good and evil" staring kevin spacey.

images from top: going through my pictures to put together this post i found many of them are of the front windows of old buildings like these first two which have a dignity to their shabbiness and a charm that makes me wish i would have gone to the art school here instead of playing it safe going to the University of Washington and, like Charleston, Savannah has the best trees which are everywhere lining the streets of the historic downtown squares, i can't say enough good things about the Foley House Inn where we stayed..this is the courtyard outside my room, hammersmith farm #207, this statue was hidden in the corner of my hotel room and i have to say i could do a whole post of the hotel room art and textiles but i'm thinking that many of you might not be as interested in that kind of stuff as joe and i are so i have restrained myself, Savannah is the 2nd most haunted city in the US so we took a midnight ghost tour in the back of a Hearse (the most haunted city in the US is Charleston, SC ), my very favorite thing about Savannah was the graveyards and here's me, sad face and all, in one of them, detail shot of an old grave, Mom and Jim resting on a bench in Forsyth Park, Bonaventure Cemetery, image of the back wall of Colonial Park Cemetery lined with gravestones where people were buried from 1750-1853. This graveyard became a campground for Sherman's soldiers during the civil war.