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it’s flat Lucas!

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Somebody took my sweet nephew and godson Lucas and shrank him into a little Flat Lucas who went all over Atlanta with me to today.

We went to Turner Field and took a picture of the new stadium from the REAL stadium, Fulton County Stadium, that was torn down for the Olympics. They turned the old stadium into a parking lot, but because of Hank Aaron‘s record-breaking home run, they embedded a record of the diamond and bases on the deck. They also left the piece of the wall where the ball sailed over!

Flat Lucas also has some pictures at the Olympic torch and the rings from the Centennial Olympics in 1996!

You can also see the State Capitol, which has a real gold roof made from gold from Dahlonega, site of the beginning of the Gold Rush!

Then we went to visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. historical site!

it’s national poetry day!

One of my favorite things to do with poetry when I am in a large group (um, like a class) is to create poems from the words around us. It’s called a “found” poem because you can’t change the words or otherwise manipulate them…you get what you find.

This morning on Twitter I discovered a blog from @GuardianBooks that was using book titles as poems, so I went to my own shelf and grabbed a few, stacked them, and took a picture. I’m not sure that I like the order of the words (that you can move around), so maybe I’ll come back later and re-sort them. You can, too, if you want 🙂

Just Read the Titles

Eat, Pray, Love;
Can’t wait to get to heaven.

Choosing beauty for one more day…
a little joy, a little oy.

Great expectations:
Questions and answers.

Patterns for a purpose three minutes a day.

starry miami

My cousin Gabriel Trujillo made this picture a little while ago. I loved it so much I asked him for permission to post it here, so there you go, gentle readers, you have the perfect juxtaposition of two things I love — Miami, and Van Gogh.

I absolutely love the blues in this. I have this thing for blue…too much, too much, and not enough. I have a friend who likes cobalt. It’s a beautiful deep blue and I love it, too. In fact, my kitchen is cobalt. It’s the dominant color in a lot of the artists I’m drawn to. I mean, really, what’s not to love about Vincent Van Gogh? But…

for snazzy…I kinda lean toward lapis lazuli…
it sounds so…sexy. I mean, if you think blue is sexy.

And it is. Just ask me.

in which I celebrate a so-so beer in a pretty glass

After having accomplished very little today and feeling absolutely joyful about it, I end my day with a lovely hand-blown beer mug from Bavaria, a gift from my hubby on one of our random weekend trips to wherever the road led.

Prost!