Savannah, Georgia

O.K., I am back to book stuff. One of my favorite books is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. I love the book. I love the movie. I just love it all. One of the reasons I like the book so much is because of the characters. The characters are larger than life even though they are based on real people. Anyway, being such a big fan of this book, I was excited to get the chance to go to Savannah and see this "garden of good and evil" for myself. I love Savannah. It has to be one of my favorite places on earth. It is so beautiful and it has such a rich history. The above pictures are of the Telfair Museum and Forsythe Fountain in Forsythe Park. The Telfair Museum currently houses the infamous Bird Girl from the cover of the book. She was moved to the Telfair from Bonaventure Cemetery after the success of the book put her safety in question. While in Savannah, my family and I visited several of the locations detailed in the book. And, just like John Berendt, I found larger than life characters in Savannah. My favorite character had to be the artist that we met on one of the squares. He was selling prints of his paintings. The paintings were of various notable places in Savannah and I decided to buy three of the prints. The artist signed the prints for me and gave me his card. As we were walking away from him, I turned the card over and read it. It said something like: "Artist looking for a wife. If you are interested, give me a call." See what I mean? Larger than life. Another character that I love is Paula Deen. I love her recipes. I love to watch her cooking show. And, I just love her attitude. Usually, when my family is on vacation, instead of all separating out and doing the things we want to do on our own, each one of us will choose two or three things that we really want to do while we are there and then the whole family goes to do everybody's things. One of my picks in Savannah was to go to the Lady and Sons restaurant. It is owned by Paula Deen and it is wunderbar! If you ever get to Savannah, go and check it out. One of my other picks when we were in Savannah was to go to Bonaventure Cemetery. We got lost on the way there and it took us forever to find it. When we finally got there, my brother-in-law said: "I don't know what is wrong with you people. I have never looked so hard to find dead people in all of my life." You know, after thinking about his statements for awhile, I decided it might have something to do with what makes Savannah special. The dead exist in perfect harmony with the living.