A couple of days this week I walked around my neighborhood in Atlanta, Virginia-Highland or often simply "the Highlands", taking pictures (the full set is here). I've been trying to come up with a way to convey a sense of the area to those who don't know it. I'm not quite sure how to do that … but I'll give it a shot.

The neighborhood was developed in the mid 1920's and is named for the intersection of the two streets, Virginia Avenue and North Highland Avenue, at its heart. It is more or less the eastern half of the map I posted in my earlier blog and the Google map in the post has the neighborhood name shown right at that intersection. This is what Wikipedia has to say about Virginia-Highland.

It is in the area just northeast of downtown Atlanta and immediately east of Midtown and Piedmont Park.

It includes many shops, restaurants and bars in various sub-neighborhoods.

One of the things I like about the restaurants along the northwest quadrant of the main intersection is the common deck/patio along the back side where you can sit outside most of the year.

Like much of the older part of Atlanta, it is very wooded with many flowering trees, particularly crape-myrtle,

dogwood and ornamental cherry.

It can be easy to forget you are so close to central Atlanta.

I consider Piedmont Park to be one of the jewels of Atlanta

and always enjoy walking there and attending various events put on by the Piedmont Park Conservancy.

I took only a few pictures in the park this week but I'll take more soon.