A beautiful first Saturday in April wasn’t meant to spend indoors.
I got up this morning and drove around East Cobb, taking in the gorgeous scenery in so many neighborhoods, of flowers, trees and landscaping bursting with the spring in full bloom.
I later ventured to the Marietta Square area, where the Marietta Farmers Market was underway, and legions of pedestrians were milling about, sampling the hand-made goods from vendors and visiting the many shops, restaurants and artisanal businesses that make it such a popular weekend destination.
Back in our community, and after a late breakfast at Biscuits and More on Johnson Ferry Road, I did some serendipitous subdivision grazing, checking out neighborhoods like the one above off Murdock Road I hadn’t visited before.
No matter what street you turn down these days, you’re sure to view such splendorous sights. That’s one of the things my late mother missed the most about East Cobb and the Marietta area after she retired to Florida, and occasionally I took photos like the one above and e-mailed them to her.
These indeed are the most pleasant weeks of the year, as far as I’m concerned—once the pollen doses fall off, that is—and there isn’t much time to savor it.
At the end of another busy week in East Cobb, milling around also a good way to clear my head before I write this column, and finish the newsletter that many of you get on Sunday.
In case you missed it, this week we talked to the proprietor of the new Heavenly BBQ on Sandy Plains Road (where Willie Jewell’s used to be), and covered the grand opening of the new Cobb Police Precinct 6, close to the Mountain View Aquatic Center.
We also reported on how citizen protests prompted a delay by Cobb DOT in cutting down trees in the medians on Columns Drive, where so many go to walk, bike and take in a scenic thoroughfare near the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area.
Instead of wholesale cutting, they’re going to remove only the trees that pose a safety hazard, with the details to come.
Those are just a few examples of the kind of feature stories that we provide for East Cobb residents every week, demonstrating what I like to call The Power of Local.
We’ve also signed up to be a sponsor of the Taste of East Cobb for the third year in a row, and they’re still accepting food and other vendors and other sponsors. It’s May 3 at the usual place—Johnson Ferry Baptist Church—and as far as I’m concerned it’s the signature spring event around here.
It embodies everything we do at East Cobb News, where readers and local businesses always come first.
As I write this I’m also taking stock of the tremendous privilege and opportunity I have to serve all of you with community news and information, and to help promote local businesses.
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I don’t want to belabor this too much longer, because my real intent is to turn this weekly column into a summary of stories we’ve posted during the week, as I started above, and include other little tidbits of community life that you can’t get anywhere else.
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