Next best thing to being there

Delinda took this photo in the Fickling driveway on Ingleside Avenue Wednesday morning.

If you haven’t been able to make one of the Cherry Blossom bus tours, you can do the next best thing.

You can take a video tour our online journalist Liz Fabian did of one of my tours this week. It was a tour group from Fort Payne, Ala., on Tuesday afternoon.

I gave a tour to a sweet group from Weaverville, N.C., on Wednesday morning. It was some of the same group I had last year, and they requested me again.

Many of them said two or three hours is not enough time to see all the beautiful places in Macon, so next year than plan to come and stay a few days.

I told them Macon was named for Nathaniel Macon, the statesman from North Carolina, and of course they all knew who he was.

This morning will be my last tour of the festival. I have a speaking engagement on Friday with a hostel group being sponsored by Georgia College & State University. These folks have come here from all over the country.

I have a booth to sell my books and CD at the Mulberry Street Arts & Crafts festival this weekend. Come by and see us.

I wish we had more blossoms out this week. I’ve never seen them so stubborn. Next week is going to be gorgeous.