3/11/2018

Weekly Update 3/11/2018

The azaleas are stunning. I think peak will be next week, but they are very grand indeed this week. Because BC has so many lovely azaleas, I thought that there might be many tourists who would take advantage of the free BHS tours on the second weekend of the month, and I went there Saturday to see if I could help out. It’s a good thing I did, because it was so crowded, they split the group into 3. I was one of the guides. Sunday is the day when I’m supposed to be there anyway, so I was back again to stun visitors with my knowledge and expertise.

at Adams Park on one of my walks this week

a lovely Sunday afternoon in BC

even the little shrub by my condo is blooming!

I went to two movies this week and attended two lectures. I went to the theater to see Darkest Hour. It was OK, but particularly interesting because I had visited the London war rooms when I was there last September. June downloaded The Shape of Water and thought it was the best movie she’s seen in a long time, so she invited me over to watch with her one evening. It was OK, too, but I would not claim it to be one of the best I’ve seen. It was a little far fetched for my tastes. I saw five of the Academy Award nominated films this year – I think that’s a new record for me.

One lecture, at TLC, was a slide show of photos taken in Savannah by one of the members’ fathers in the 50s and 60s. She returned to some of the places to take updated photos of the same locations. That was really interesting. The other talk was at Massie School, and it was titled “What Would Tomochichi Do”. While I knew it was about planning for the future cityscape of Savannah, I was surprise that it focused only on the Tomochichi Federal Court House and the plans to enlarge and update it. The group attending were disappointed cause the plans do not seem to fit with the overall historic sense that Savannah has become noted for. We were encouraged to contact politicians, both at the federal and state levels to protest the plans. I feel that since I can get neither my HOA Board nor the management people here at MP to respond to inquires and questions, I doubt that anyone higher up would be at all interested in what I think about anything. That was a waste of an evening for me.

St Patrick’s Day is rapidly approaching. The whole city celebrates, and one thing that they do is to turn the water in all the fountains in all the squares to green. When I went to DH on

Friday, it was as it always it; when I left after my tours, the water was green in the fountain in Columbia Square.

Sunday evening, I found myself driving out to Tybee again to the Post Theater - this is getting to be a habit. The Savannah Music Fest is coming in a few weeks, and I used to really enjoy that. But I used to be able to go to a mid-afternoon classical concert for $10, but now everything is $30 or more, and I can’t justify spending that kind of money on a one-hour show. So, I’m drawn more and more to the Post. One of the original Celtic Women sang Irish songs and ballads, some which were familiar from the Celtic Women shows. I enjoyed that.