Hotlanta

Last weekend we took a quick car ride over to Atlanta to visit some friends. We were only there for a day, but had a blast. Stops included 3 restaurants with really good food, the amazing Dekalb farmer's market (a gigantic, international wholesale market with everything), and the Atlanta art museum. That's kind of all we had time for.

Some highlights from the Museum:

The Folk Art collection was great. This was Sam's favorite piece, called A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed, by Henry Church, 1888: dog defending man protecting lamb. Made out of sandstone.

Three Ways to Send a Message: Telephone, Telegram, Tell-a-Woman. Elijah Pierce, 1941.

Let me introduce you to Horse. He is made mostly of bottle caps. Mr. Imagination, 2009.

Howard Finster, Shakespeare, and Satan.

The special exhibit was on Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. This was my favorite in the exhibition, done by Kahlo:

And some other highlights:

This one I like to call Little Sam: