296. Robust

296. Robust
Definition: (adj) strong, healthy, and/or vigorous
Location Placed: Owens-Thomas House, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/4/11 at 11:16am





As touted by a number of local people I asked, the Owens-Thomas House was one of the more interesting and unique houses out there. There were tons of little interesting bits in the house including the makers desire for symmetry, which leads to phantom doors that lead nowhere and windows in ridiculous places. One of my favorite things are the matching china closets built into the corners with rounded doors. It was a pretty cool house. Due to an anti-photo personnel member following the tour like a hawk, I left the crane in the slave quarters/carriage house. Definitely a must see house if you're into that sort of thing.

295. Limitless

295. Limitless
Definition: (adj) without end or boundary
Location Placed: Juliette Gordon Low House, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/4/11 at 3:13pm





Being a former girl scout many moons ago, thought not particularly dedicated toward the end, I was a bit excited to go to this house. Some of the knowledge of her life came back to me as I enjoyed the lovely tour. I particularly enjoyed the porch facing the garden. I like to think of them as the 'See & Be Seen' porch. It seems like those sorts of porches were the ones that people in the old days were invited if they were someone import to the hosts. Between that and the higher floors, people certainly knew how to party. I can just imagine the people of the past, decked out in their party outfits, milling around on those porches in the cooler nights of spring and fall. (Only because I can't imagine anyone wanting to party outside in the summer heat I experienced.) But the Juliette Gordon Low was a lovely last minute addition to my house tour of the day.

294. Discover

294. Discover
Definition: (v) be the first to recognize the potential of
Location Placed: Gallery Espresso, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/4/11 at 2:40pm





There are lots of wonderful things to discover while vacationing to a new place. From wonderful things to eat, to little between the building cemeteries and cafes with lovely desserts. Savannah has lots of little things to do and see. I popped in here to get a cool drink before I headed off to my next destination. While not really a hole in the wall, as it was on a super bright corner lot next to a square, I'm a sucker for non-chain coffee places. They always seem to have an interesting atmosphere. Do you have a favorite cafe or local coffee joint?

293. Astute

293. Astute
Definition: (adj) ability to assess people and situations to ones advantage
Location Placed: Green-Meldrim House, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/4/11 at 1:16pm



It seems my phone ate the pre-placement picture. The Green-Meldrim House is one of those lovely historic homes that are decorated in period furniture with interesting stories of the people that lived there. I think my favorite bit was the lovely set of windows above the stairs that actually had a ring of flame blowers surrounding it to give light into the darker stairwell. That and the double pocket front doors that allow for airflow and light.

292. Unerring

292. Unerring
Definition: (adj) always right or accurate
Location Placed: Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/4/11 at 1:16pm

291. Fresh

291. Fresh
Definition: (adj) full of energy and vigor
Location Placed: Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/4/11 at 12:55pm





Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House is a very popular restaurant in Savannah where you sit at a large table seating 10 and eat together boarding house style (where there is bowls of stuff passed around). Since the line was quite long, I spent most of my hour long wait talking to the nice ladies ahead of me in line. They were about ready to adopt me by the time we got up to the front of the line but as a single person, I was bumped up to a different table. They were also visiting Hilton Head and just spending the day in Savannah. I wish I had been able to sit with them, but instead I sat with a group from Ohio and one from the same area I went to for my undergraduate university degree. Small world.

290. Conscientious

290. Conscientious
Definition: (adj) wishing to do what was right
Location Placed: E. Shaver Books, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/4/11 at 10:40pm





From the hotel room window, I could see E. Shaver Books across the street and you all know I have a weakness for bookstores. Definitely cute as independent bookstores usually are. If I actually lived in the area, I could totally see myself becoming a regular there and then popping over Madison Square to read. Makes me want to try to find a local park to do some reading in.

289. Adventure

289. Adventure
Definition: (adj) an unusual and exciting experience or activity
Location Placed: Leopold's Ice Cream Shop, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/3/11 at 9:33pm





After the adventure of a Savannah ghost tour, I swung around to the evidently popular Leopold's for some much esteemed ice cream. Birthday Cake Milkshake in hand, I tried to find a place to release a crane where it would be found but I wouldn't be too obvious in taking a picture of it. However, the place was filled with people so I eventually gave up and just put it on a table in plain sight. At least you can see the crane and the location around my finger in this photo.

288. Gentle

288. Gentle
Definition: (adj) kind or tender
Location Placed: Hampton Inn & Suites, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/3/11 at 9:21pm

287. Pure

287. Pure
Definition: (adj) wholesome and untainted by immorality
Location Placed: Hilton Desoto Hotel, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/3/11 at 5:30pm





I had a lovely view of Savannah from the back of the hotel, facing out onto Madison Square. One of the cool things about Savannah is the number of squares, or small parks, that dot the city. There are over 20 squares making the city look pretty green when viewed from up high. I think the squares were my favorite part of the city. On my first night visiting, I got a meal to-go and spent the night eating in Chippewa Square (or where the opening scene from the movie Forest Gump was shot). I think I drove or walked through the majority of the squares, which was a real treat.

286. Dreamy

286. Dreamy
Definition: (adj) delightful or gorgeous
Location Placed: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/3/11 at 5:02pm





I popped into the Hyatt to enjoy a little bit of their cool temperatures before I struck out to figure out where the tour shuttle stop was. About a minute or so after I started out, a few big, fat raindrops fell onto my plastic bag (filled with my new brand new pieces of art). A bit of blind wandering lead me to standing under (yet another lovely) live oak with a judge and his younger daughter. He told me a bit about his job and his trip to Hilton Head, South Carolina with his family. Out of all the ways I could be stuck in the pouring rain, spending time with an interesting stranger standing under a picturesque tree is certainly high on my list.

285. Civilized

285. Civilized
Definition: (adj) polite and well-mannered
Location Placed: River Street Sweets, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/3/11 at 3:39pm





The explanation for this placement picture? Certain people become a wee bit uncivilized when they get into candy stores. The lady that blindsided me was casing the candy displays for some chocolate-y goodness (and that stores wares were particularly good) and walked right into me while I was taking the photo. I was so stunned that she neither apologized nor even seem to realize that she ran into me that I promptly left. Hopefully that lady really enjoyed the candy she ended up buying.

284. Colorful

284. Colorful
Definition: (adj) lively and exciting
Location Placed: Hyatt Hotel Visitors Center, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/3/11 at 3:30pm

283. Remarkable

283. Remarkable
Definition: (adj) worthy of attention
Location Placed: The Lady & Son's, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/3/11 at 2:37pm





In one of those perfect crane placing moments, remarkable ended up at Paula Deen's restaurant, The Lady & Sons. The food, well you guessed it, was remarkable. Everything from the biscuits to the sweet tea to the chicken pot pie was amazing. I even loved the flash fried collards, and I don't even like collards. I also listened to my waiter talk to another table about how the restaurant runs as well as their seating capacity, which was really interesting. The icing on the cake? Said waiter gave me a cup of sweet tea for the road. Pretty key on (yet another) sweltering day. If I lived in Savannah, I'd be a regular there, so it might be a good thing for my waist-line that I'm not!

282. Pizzazz

282. Pizzazz
Definition: (n) attractive combination of vitality and glamour
Location Placed: Market Center, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/3/11 at 2:02pm





There were tons of little artist shops in the Market Center portion of Savannah. If I had tons and tons of money, I'd certainly know where to spend it all. Granted I would've never been able to put it all in my one checked luggage piece, but that is totally besides the point. I did end up getting a couple smaller things from a place down by the river but I really wanted to pick up a couple things here.

281. Breathtaking

281. Breathtaking
Definition: (adj) astonishing or awe-inspiring in nature
Location Placed: Savannah Visitors Center, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/3/11 at 11:54pm

280. Unabashed

280. Unabashed
Definition: (adj) not embarrassed or ashamed
Location Placed: Savannah History Museum, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/3/11 at 11:19am





When it comes to going on a vacation by yourself, you certainly need to be unabashed. Several people during the trip were surprised to hear I had gone on my own but I didn't really think about it much. I planned a little trip, got to do all the things I wanted to do, and kept busy for the most part. I'm glad that I was able to get to go see the places I did and chat with some of the interesting people I did.

279. Fanciful

279. Fanciful
Definition: (adj) existing only in ones imagination
Location Placed: UPS Store, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/2/11 at 5:18pm





I was all excited when I made this one because I decided that the paper matched the word. Until I realized that fanciful was in imagination only. No paper could be fanciful. But I decided to make my own definition up that allowed me to consider this pretty paper fanciful.

278. Mindful

278. Mindful
Definition: (adj) conscious or aware of
Location Placed: Starbucks, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/2/11 at 5:10pm





If this crane isn't the poster 'child' for not making my cranes late at night the night before I am slated to fly out, I don't know what is. I'm obviously not too mindful of my spelling late at night.

Prior to placing this crane, I went to Bonaventure Cemetery, although I wasn't quite sure why I had placed it on my list of places to go. It was a cool cemetery in terms of old markers and different ones (my favorite being a piano shaped one). It wasn't too far from Wormsloe Plantation so swinging by on my way back to my hotel was no big deal. Another scorching day made a Lemonade Iced Tea look all the better.

277. Insightful

277. Insightful
Definition: (adj) exhibiting clear and deep perception
Location Placed: Cutters Point Coffee, Savannah, Georgia
Date Placed: 8/2/11 at 2:12pm





I wish I had something insightful to say about this location but it was just one of those release and run sorts of cranes. The inside of the coffee place looked pretty pretty inviting with a wooden bar but definitely hard to take a picture of it while trying to be inconspicuous. I was pretty impressed with the model sailboat at the end of the bar. No idea what the significance of it was, but I certainly approve.