this weekend is the 10th annual kirkwood spring fling in our little historic kirkwood. the festival also features a 5k race on saturday morning and an open air artist market with a ton of vendors, good eats, and live bands. admission to the festival is free from 10am-7pm on saturday at bessie branham park, with music lasting until 11pm. tickets for the kirkwood tour of homes can be purchased at the festival or at local kirkwood businesses.

– ryan & gub

kirkwood spring fling
2051 delano drive ne
atlanta, georgia 30317

tour of homes
saturday, may 18th, 2012
sunday, may 19th, 2012
from 12pm until 6pm

5k race
saturday, may 18th, 2012
starts at 8am

artist market
saturday, May 18th, 2012
from 10am until 7pm

here is another kirkwood living walls piece; who would have thought our little neighborhood would have such hip street art? this one is a series of work by ltrs, peeve & blief at the corner of la france street & arizona ave ne near the arizona pub. it’s more old-school graffiti/tag style, which is cool to see. i couldn’t find much more information on the artists though or other works by them for that matter.

check out our previous coverage of living walls work by gaia & nanook, jaz, bruno, niznik & tyndell, greg mike, marco sueño and trek matthews and this great google map of the 2011 living walls murals.

– ryan

living walls atlanta – ltrs, peeve & blief

la france street & arizona ave ne
atlanta, ga 30307

here is another living walls mural in kirkwood that’s very close to our house! it’s by atlanta-based artist/designer greg mike, whose work can be found all around town, especially his loudmouf design. he also makes these large & small mad cans, which are fun.

greg’s kirkwood mural is great, we are excited to have such cool street art in our neighborhood! i have yet to drive by when that yellow van wasn’t parked in front though, so i don’t have any photos of the full mural. you can check out the whole design here while i wait for a photo opportunity.

here is a post we did a couple of years ago with some photos of greg’s work near the eyedrum. little did we know it was work he did for the 2010 living walls conference.

check back for more living walls updates!

– ryan

living walls atlanta – greg mike

2191 college ave ne
atlanta, ga 30317

the next installment in our living walls coverage is a piece by marco sueño. this one is actually in kirkwood right near our house, which is pretty happening for our neighborhood.

marco is a peruvian street artist who affixes graphics on walls with wheat paste. the results can be amazing, as is the case here, but they also don’t last very long. i drove by his kirkwood piece this morning and there wasn’t much left on the walls. most of the art was peeling off or gone at this point. it also looks like an ape tag i see around town has been added.

hopefully we will get another, more permanent, living walls piece in its place.

check back for more living walls updates!

– ryan

living walls atlanta – marco sueño

1986 hosea l williams dr ne
atlanta, ga 30317

today is the first day of the east lake farmers market, which runs on saturdays from 9am to 1pm. it’s open through october and can be found at the corner of 2nd avenue and hosea williams drive in the east lake/kirkwood area. the market features lots of local farmers selling fruit, vegetables, eggs, salsas and all sorts of other stuff.

to kick off the season, today is the third annual collard greens cook-off! you can sample great collards from both top local chefs and amateur neighborhood cooks.

see you there!

– ryan & gub

east lake farmers market

2nd avenue and hosea williams drive
atlanta, ga 30317

saturdays
9am – 1pm
april – october

they just painted a huge mural under the bridge near arizona ave and dekalb ave in kirkwood that is awesome! we wish they would have done a similar mural under the rocky ford rd bridge, ours is not nearly as fun.

– ryan & gub

UPDATE: this mural is actually part of living walls and is by atlanta artist hense. here is a previous post with another hense mural.

the 9th annual kirkwood spring fling is going on this weekend in historic kirkwood. the festival also features a 5k race on saturday morning and an open air artist market with a ton of vendors, good eats, and live bands. admission to the festival is free from 10am-7pm on saturday at bessie branham park, with music lasting until 11pm. tickets for the kirkwood tour of homes can be purchased at the festival or at local kirkwood businesses.

– ryan & gub

kirkwood spring fling
2051 delano drive ne
atlanta, georgia 30317

tour of homes
saturday, may 14th, 2011
sunday, may 15th, 2011
from 12pm until 6pm

5k race
saturday, may 14th, 2011
starts at 8am

artist market
saturday, May 14th, 2011
from 10am until 7pm

we had brunch yesterday at le petit marché in downtown kirkwood. it’s a cute little market that features a food counter with breakfast, lunch and coffee items. besides homemade soups and build-your-own egg sandwiches, they offer award winning pb&j sandwiches. the peanut butter options include jungle banana, dark chocolate duo, cinnamon raisin, white chocolate raspberry and chocolate chip cookie dough. your jam choices are raspberry, strawberry and housemade golden fig. we went with the cuban panini and the biscuits & gravy brunch special. very tasty!

we are super excited to have such a great brunch option within walking distance from our house. we will be back soon for some pb&j sandwiches!

check out their menu.

– ryan & gub

le petit marché

1963 hosea l williams dr se no. 108
atlanta, ga 30317
404-371-9888
marchetsparks@gmail.com

we had a really great time being part of the kirkwood tour of homes! we met a lot of nice neighbors and got to show off our cute little house. it turns out one of our neighbors becky writes for various blogs and wrote about our house here and here!

we’ve spent the last couple of months working on house projects and doing the most thorough spring cleaning we’ve done in ages. our friend and neighbor miguel martinez took photos of our house in all its de-cluttered glory. he is a really amazing photographer who works for the mundo hispánico. he took so many great photos we decided to spread them out over a few posts.

this first post covers our front porch, family room, media room, backyard and garden.

– ryan & gub

the second part of our tour of home series features our office, bedrooms, and bathroom, which includes our vintage snow globe collection.

again, all of the photos were taken by our friend miguel martinez!

– ryan & gub