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Open House
It's time for Chatham Murray's annual art open house in
her very artistic home at 150 Barrow St, just off Pulaski this
Saturday, Apr. 21 from 11 a,». until dark-rain or shine (or
after by appointment). Trained (8FA and MfA) by Umar Dodd
and others at UGA, Chatham's paintings are accessibly rep
resentational and executed with an exguisfte application of
paint and an eye for the telling detail. (Hey, I didn't go to art
school)
Anyway, shell have a lot of paintings to see—perhaps to
buy at reasonable prices—along with food treats, wine, min
gling with friends and seeing how an artist turns her domicile
into a living art gallery. See Chatham's paintings at www.ehat-
hammurray.com.
Garden Tour
One of the absolute highlights of the busy spring season
here is always the Garden Tour of the Piedmont Gardeners. The
Tour is this Saturday, April 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m„, and as
usual you do it at your own pace, talking as long as you want
at each stop or skipping a garden if you're in a hurry.
The great thing about the Piedmont Gardeners is that
they're people who enjoy getting their hands dirty. They under
stand gardens from the ground up, and they tend to choose
yards for the tour that are mat working gardens that show you
what you, too, could accomplish with a lot of love and back
breaking work. So, there's a human scale to these places; you
fed at home, even though they may make you feel like you
should rush right back and transplant those nasturtiums to a
sunnier spot.
The Gardeners have a surprise for us this year, four of the
five gardens am out in Oconee County, and the fifth is on the
way. This is definitely a driving tour—though they're all dose
together once you get out them. You're going to see some
larger yards—country and in-town—expansive, with vistas,
trees, ponds, sculpture. You'll see what people can accomplish
when they have the space to spread out. This is Watkinsviile
and rural Oconee County, not the ‘burbs.
Your tour booklet is your ticket and it contains maps and
descriptions of the gardens. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20
the day of the tour. They are available at Gofer's Home and
Garden Showplace, Week-End A'Fair at Charmar, Thomas Orchard
and Greenhouse , Always Always Rowers, and arty of the gar
dens on the day of the tour. For more information and some
pictures, see www.piedmontgardenefs.org.
Kittle Everitt The first stop is on the way to Oconee
County, at 355 Greystone Terrace, off the south end of Timothy
Road. Kittie specializes in conifers, and you'll want to; too,
once you see what she has done with her tittle patch of wood
land: Silver Smoke Arizona cypresses, twisted white pines,
Dragon's Eye pine. Kittie's knack for growing things in pots
(Japanese umbrella "pine," for instar te) may give you an idea
or two, also,
Cindy Karp and John Morrison These two dedicated gar
deners have turned their five acres into areas of emphasis
punctuated by a pond, a pool, a waterfall, sculpture, bird-
houses and tots of azaleas, tulips, mahonias and pieris. See it
aU at 1310 Pimlico lane, out in Bishop,
Faye and Edward Chambers This is a wonderland of ptant-
i.jgs, paths, pools and a large lake—a place to amble and take
in the varying beds of pinks, 'Georgia Blue," weeping Japanese
maples, rhododendrons and roses at 1431 Union Church Road
outside WatirinsvULe.
• Susan and Brian Bnodrfck The Brodridcs live in an old fam
ily home in the city of Waikinsvitte at 117 South Main Street.
Their lot is shaded by stately pecans and oaks, interplanteo
with dogwoods, and an old hemlock brought from North
Carolina by Susan's grandfather. A targe old double willow
oak will as one visitor remarked, make you want to become a
Druid.
Muds and Howard Abney Here's another old Watkinsville
house (1895) at 33 Harden Hitt Road, with 100-year-old red
oaks lining the drive. Native azaleas, Japanese maples, resur
rection ferns, yellow flag iris, a pond, a gazebo: everything you
need to luxuriate in a real Southern yard and garden.
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Fine Arts Festival
| Saturday April 21,10-5 Sunday April 22,10-5]
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Booths featuring 80 artists
34 School St , Watkinsville
Free Parking & Admission • Juried Exhibit • Food Vendors
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K1dsw€>rks Saturday & Sunday 1-5
Palm Steals with Local Artists
Stanley Bertmtdaz & Bril Pierson
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