What can I say. Sunday dawned cold but clear. And before you knew it, the cold gave way to one of those rare, springlike, February days that you wish you could bottle up and save for the inevitable late winter cold snap.
So naturally I had to get on my bike and check out what was happening on this balmy GNV Sunday.
Next thing I knew I was at The Theater of Memory, where they were holding an open house. They had a bagpiper (bagpipist?) out in the parking lot and a trio playing chamber music inside. (Plus a really odd looking clock that ran backwards, but never mind that.)
Long story short, I asked these talented musicians if they could do “Inagaddadavita” and got blank stares. There’s no accounting for taste, right?
But never mind that. If you haven’t been to the Theater of Memory yet, you are missing something special. It is a GNV cabinet of curiosities indeed.
Koy pond fish #1: Waddya wanna do today? Koy pond fish #2: I dunno, wadda you wanna do today? The suspense was killing me so I moved on.
To Cypress & Grove, where there was a whole lotta nursery stuff (of the plant variety, not the baby variety) going on.
Being your faithful correspondent, I asked what a Bromeliad is so you won’t have to. They told me it was a pineapple-like plant. But, honestly, I’m not sure if they were shining me on or not.
News flash! Like the swallows returning to Capistrano, the ducks have returned to the Duck Pond. That is all.
My next stop was the Matheson Museum and Sweetwater Branch Park (because, honestly, it was right on the way to First Mag, which was my ultimate destination). This was Day 4 of the five day Sarah’s Sweetwater Greenway Loop Festival. And there was a bounce house, music, local (if odd looking) beverages and much more.
Sarah’s Sweetwater Greenway Loop Festival is, above all, a celebration of the historic neighborhoods that sprang up on and around the course of GNV’s First Creek. Creation of the proposed Sweetwater Greenway Loop will help tie GNV’s first neighborhoods closer together than ever before – even as it restores and honor the city’s most abused creek.
Because as a community, GNV remains, above all, a work in progress.
Is this a great town or what?
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