My weekend was filled with many delightful things.

Melissa came to visit, which is wonderful enough.

On Saturday morning she & Merritt & I went to the High Museum. Right now they continue to rotate the much-hyped Louvre exhibit (eh…), however I’m often more captivated by the other exhibits. Surprisingly, the works that stuck with me from this past visit were from the “Street Life: American Photographs from the 1960s and 70s” collection, Susan Meiselas’s photographs in particular.

In the early 70’s she did a series on traveling carnival strippers. She had the following to say in the introduction to her book: “The recognition of this world is not the invention of it. I wanted to present an account of the girl show that portrayed what I saw and revealed how the people involved felt about what they were doing. …If the viewer is appalled by what follows, that reaction is not so different from the alienation of those who participate in the shows.”

I think her photographs hit this dead on. So many perspectives are examined, from the individual girls, the audience members, potential ticket purchasers, managers, pre-teen boys & girls passing by the tent.

If you live in Fulton County, residents get free admission to the High on the first Saturday of every month before 11:00 a.m. Normal adult admission is $18… I’m just saying.

So then we went and had lunch at the Flying Biscuit and visited the Lake Claire Land Trust, a community garden in Chandler Park. It is truly one of Atlanta’s greatest hidden treasures assuming you can see through all the peace signs & yard art.

Saturday evening I started this while we watched The Graduate:

The Endless Loop Scarf (the name does bother me a bit… endless loop… what other kinds are there?)

Finished it up Sunday evening. It has randomly placed rows consisting of k2tog/yo holes, which I adore even though no one will ever notice them but me. I used Suss Yarn’s Crunch, currently discontinued and on sale in Knitch Atlanta’s online store. Made M listen to me drone on and on for two days about the prettiness of the yarn. I have two more skeins of this stuff left now - what to do!?

Sunday afternoon we went up for my niece Miss Lark’s birthday - a glorious 3 years. She received several dresses, which she rotated throughout the party. How fashionable.

I gave her a set of My Little Ponies (reproductions of the 1982 versions, thank you very much.) I was a little too pleased to see her and Miss Amelia walking around with them.

On a completely unrelated note, I’m not sure if you know it, but aside from the Peony, the Ranunculus is the most wonderful flower in existence. This is indisputable.

Also indisputable:

Katy’s Rowan is one of the cutest babies ever. Please do not try to argue this fact. You’ll just end up looking foolish.