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malaise

(282,460 posts)
Mon Nov 25, 2024, 07:29 AM Nov 2024

I spent a few hours at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens

Yesterday. It was absolutely beautiful. The orchid room nearly blew my brains. The huge Christmas wreath and Christmas tree were breathtaking as were the fall colors .
We lucked out as the lights were turned on while we were there. When we returned I asked BIL to line up In A Monastery Garden and told him thanks.
We had already visited two museums and MLKs neighborhood and eternal flame. We also went to Mary Mac’s Tea Room . Saw Jimmy Carter’s photo but sadly also saw Gingrich’s😀
I head home tonight. There is something lovable about Atlanta. I head home tonight

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I spent a few hours at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens (Original Post) malaise Nov 2024 OP
Oh what a fun day! I am so envious of your visit to Mary Mac's Tea Room. In japple Nov 2024 #1
Was really lovely malaise Nov 2024 #2
Glad you enjoyed your visit, malaise. gademocrat7 Nov 2024 #3
did you get to the aquarium? it's pretty awesome too. Native Nov 2024 #4
We thought about it malaise Nov 2024 #27
Glad you enjoyed Atlanta! DemInBuckhead Nov 2024 #5
They live in Buckhead malaise Nov 2024 #12
Too late for the Corpse Flower Historic NY Nov 2024 #6
Wow! malaise Nov 2024 #13
Special..... Historic NY Nov 2024 #19
Glad you're... 2naSalit Nov 2024 #7
Really having a good time malaise Nov 2024 #15
Love botanical gardens Old Crank Nov 2024 #8
Anywhere on the planet malaise Nov 2024 #23
It's good spending time in the orchid room Walleye Nov 2024 #9
Even had a pic taken malaise Nov 2024 #24
Longwood Gardens is magnificent. Drum Nov 2024 #31
Will add it to my bucket list malaise Nov 2024 #35
Two of my favorite places in Atlanta: the Botanical Gardens and Mary Mac's! Bo Zarts Nov 2024 #10
Freaking wow malaise Nov 2024 #16
Glad you can still see some beauty in the United States True Dough Nov 2024 #11
Sometimes we have to escape malaise Nov 2024 #17
My musical project, The Freedom Toast, is based in Atlanta DFW Nov 2024 #14
Very cool malaise Nov 2024 #18
Sounds like a great day. Enjoy! surfered Nov 2024 #20
I went to college in Atlanta. Mary Macs was a tradition and wonderful lunch way back then. MLAA Nov 2024 #21
I'll be in ATL this weekend. No particular reason; we just like to go & have a good time! Callie1979 Nov 2024 #22
Enjoy malaise Nov 2024 #25
Glad you enjoyed my hometown, Malaise. kellytore Nov 2024 #26
Sis and her hubby have been there more malaise Nov 2024 #28
"Atlanta Botanical" is fun to say. Harker Nov 2024 #29
I went there with my wife. We suddenly didn't have anything to say. It was a bit of an orchid moment! Doodley Nov 2024 #30
I had BIL play this malaise Nov 2024 #36
I'm delighted to read that you and your family are enjoying yourselves Niagara Nov 2024 #32
Bwaaah! malaise Nov 2024 #33
Hahaha! I love it!! Niagara Nov 2024 #34
Omg Mary Mac's! Tanuki Nov 2024 #37
I had the peach cobbler malaise Nov 2024 #38
More malaise Nov 2024 #39

japple

(10,459 posts)
1. Oh what a fun day! I am so envious of your visit to Mary Mac's Tea Room. In
Mon Nov 25, 2024, 07:55 AM
Nov 2024

the 1970s, I lived just around the corner and would eat there whenever I could scrounge up $5.00. Those little rolls they served were to die for, also the collard greens and cornbread.

Glad you got to see the botanical garden. It is beautiful, almost any time of year, but Christmastime is WOW! You're right, Atlanta is lovable!

DemInBuckhead

(118 posts)
5. Glad you enjoyed Atlanta!
Mon Nov 25, 2024, 08:15 AM
Nov 2024

I used to live there as some folks would figure out by my username. Safe travels!

Old Crank

(5,473 posts)
8. Love botanical gardens
Mon Nov 25, 2024, 08:25 AM
Nov 2024

One good thing about digital cameras, is that I don't go broke processing film after my visits...

Glad you enjoyed the place.

Walleye

(39,244 posts)
9. It's good spending time in the orchid room
Mon Nov 25, 2024, 08:25 AM
Nov 2024

When I was working for the paper, I had an event to cover at Longwood Gardens. I had to wait about 45 minutes for it to start and they let me go sit in the orchid room by myself. There must’ve been 75 different kinds of orchids in there it was just amazing. I never got tired of looking at them.

Bo Zarts

(25,942 posts)
10. Two of my favorite places in Atlanta: the Botanical Gardens and Mary Mac's!
Mon Nov 25, 2024, 08:25 AM
Nov 2024

Here is an interesting tidbit about the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. My youngest brother and his friends used to frequent the outdoor concerts at the ABG, with front row seats the rule not the exception. One night, about a decade ago, one of the women in the group felt a sharp pain in her hand in the middle of the concert. She, like my brother and several others, was a physician.

They moved to a lighted area and determined that she had, most likely, been bitten by a venomous snake! They never saw the snake, but when they got to the ER at Grady Hospital it was obviously a snakebite .. most likely an Eastern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix). She was treated agressively and recovered fine.

True Dough

(22,514 posts)
11. Glad you can still see some beauty in the United States
Mon Nov 25, 2024, 08:26 AM
Nov 2024

despite you-know-who (no mentions in the Lounge).



Safe travels home, malaise.

DFW

(57,633 posts)
14. My musical project, The Freedom Toast, is based in Atlanta
Mon Nov 25, 2024, 08:41 AM
Nov 2024

We have recorded our music there since we started recording almost 20 years ago.

MLAA

(19,055 posts)
21. I went to college in Atlanta. Mary Macs was a tradition and wonderful lunch way back then.
Mon Nov 25, 2024, 09:28 AM
Nov 2024

kellytore

(223 posts)
26. Glad you enjoyed my hometown, Malaise.
Mon Nov 25, 2024, 09:54 AM
Nov 2024

Next time you visit take time to eat at Manuel's Tavern. This was the meeting place for many democratic functions since the 1960's. Jimmy Carter announced his run for governor there in 1970, and President Obama visited on one of his campaigns in the state. There are so many great pictures on the walls that it would take hours to walk around the different rooms to see them all.

Doodley

(10,669 posts)
30. I went there with my wife. We suddenly didn't have anything to say. It was a bit of an orchid moment!
Mon Nov 25, 2024, 12:17 PM
Nov 2024

malaise

(282,460 posts)
36. I had BIL play this
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 01:52 AM
Nov 2024

and you know I am an atheist but dad and his oldest sister loved this after visits to gardens and I started whistling it as we walked to the vehicle. It was a fabulous afternoon.



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Niagara

(10,414 posts)
32. I'm delighted to read that you and your family are enjoying yourselves
Mon Nov 25, 2024, 02:56 PM
Nov 2024

Let me make this pellucidly clear... safe travels to you, malaise.


malaise

(282,460 posts)
39. More
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 08:30 AM
Nov 2024

Mary Mac’s originally opened with one dining room; today, we have 6 bustling dining rooms and a full service bar. The restaurant has expanded to 13,000 square feet, occupying several storefronts, and is one of the city’s five-largest restaurants. Though our restaurant has grown over the years, it’s still 1945 in the kitchen. We still do things the way Mary MacKenzie and her successor, renowned owner, Margaret Lupo (1962-1994), did things. Every morning, we shuck bushels of corn, hand wash our carefully selected greens, and snap fresh green beans by hand. We bake our own scrumptious breads and desserts, like old fashioned banana pudding, coconut cake, and fresh Georgia peach cobbler, and brew up the best sweet tea - “Table Wine of the South”.

https://marymacs.com/about-us/

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