Four spring festivals in Georgia

Tired of winter? Look southward. Spring brushes  middle Georgia with its color palette a few weeks before it gets up here to Atlanta.

• The Forsythia Festival celebrates spring as only a small town can – with arts and crafts booths and fair food in tents, surrounding the courthouse, a musicale, the Miss Forsythia pageant, a 5K run, a choral concert, a woodturning extravaganza (40 woodturners plan to participate this year) the used book sale, exhibits by the Middle Georgia Fine Arts Society, and yeah, a Boy Scout pancake breakfast. This is a top 2 event pick by the Southeast Tourism Society. Forsyth is about an hour and a half south of Atlanta on I-75.
• Another 20 minutes south and you’ll be at the site of “the pinkest party on earth.” The Macon Cherry Blossom Festival has events from March 20 – 29. These include hot-air balloons,  parades, historic tours, the Sea Lion show, fireworks displays, and amusement rides. There are fashion shows and a pet fashion show, a run and a bed race, fancy balls to dancing in the streets, concerts and bands of every genre, really – from a tribute to the Allman Brothers to the blues to an organ concert. This has been selected a Top 100 Event by the American Bus Association and a Top 20 Event in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society. Oh, and it’s all framed by 300,000 blooming Yoshino cherry trees.
• And speaking of music of every genre, click here to see the line up at the Savannah Music Festival, held from March 18 to April 5. This is Georgia’s largest music festival. It has received rave reviews around the country. Really, Savannah, music and spring? You gotta go.
• If you can’t get out of town, get your fix of beautiful blossoms at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens orchid show. (view location) Learn about them, photograph them and hit the gift shop to adopt some and take them home.