A Visit to Atlanta, Part 4 - Folk Art

I'm back after being momentarily engrossed in numbers and tax returns - it's that time of the year! Today I'm going to show you one of my favorite exhibits at the Atlanta History Center. The folk art exhibit. 

One of my favorite parts of that was all the fabulous pottery, much of which was made by the Meaders Family (I included a video about them a little further down).

Daniel and I love pottery and you can see it all around our home. And one of these days we'll add a face jug to our collection!

The video below is a short documentary I found on YouTube on the Meaders Family and worth watching.

Of course, there were other pieces of folk art that were also gorgeous!

So now there will be just one more blog post about our Atlanta Trip with some of my favorite photos. I've also been painting a little and will have more art to show you soon!

I hope you are all enjoying spring and the return of warmer weather! We are in a stretch of perfect temperatures and are enjoying it thoroughly!

❧ Silke

Gaga about Pottery...

I was going to do a post introducing you to the latest issue of my favorite German magazine "Landlust" (and it's another beautiful issue!), but my dad sent me some photos that I thought I'd share with you first. He is quickly becoming my foreign blog correspondent!

Last weekend, my dad met up with

his long-time friend from college and together
they explored a couple of gorgeous little towns along the river Lahn, a place where my dad vacationed with his parents when he was a young boy.
Isn't it just beautiful? (I think I'm feeling a visit coming on...)
Apparently, Goethe got off the boat and had lunch at this gorgeous old building in 1774!
Now...the pottery! Do you remember this beautiful pitcher that my dad brought for us from Germany when he visited in November?

Last weekend, he went back to the same pottery studio, Töpferei Giertz, and took pictures for all of us!
Even of the master potter himself...
and his workspace (so tidy!).
There are two potters working at the studio and they still fire all their pieces the traditional way in an open fire.

I made a loaf of wonderfully seedy and grainy German bread yesterday and would have loved that large bread crock ("Brottopf") to keep it fresh. Ok, I admit it, I just want it because it's pretty!

Isn't this blue just gorgeous?

I'd like one of everything, please! How about you?!

Tomorrow: Landlust and a few garden photos!