Pretty in Pink: It’s Macon’s season to shine

The Telegraph staff will be out in full force over the next 10 days covering the Cherry Blossom Festival. By the time the event ends, most of us involved in the coverage will hope we’ll never see pink again. That sentiment will last for about a year, by which time we’re recharged and eager to embrace another edition of Macon’s finest festival.

With chests puffed with pride, we'll brag to our friends that Macon has more cherry trees than Washington, D.C. (home to that other cherry blossom festival) as we direct visitors to a favorite venue or event.

In today’s paper, you’ll find a special Cherry Blossom Festival section listing a host of fun events. The section includes useful information such as where to buy tickets, or gifts, or where to catch up to a bus tour. We hope you’ll use it to plan your Cherry Blossom outings.

You can also find a calendar on our Web site, macon.com. We invite you to visit macon.com each day during the festival. We’ll have plenty of things to show and tell, including lots of colorful photos from our staff photographers and our readers, and regular postings from our cherry blogger. There’s a special CBF site already on our Web site, so please take a look and tell your friends to submit their photographs.

Meanwhile, if you have a fresh idea for a story about the festival or any of its many volunteers, we’re all ears. Call me at 744-4340 or shoot me an e-mail. If it’s next week, and I don’t get right back to you, be patient. I’m probably standing in line for my scoop of Cherries and Cream ice cream. It was so popular last year that I missed out on it. Not this year, baby.