Greensboro Daily Photo

Bicycling in Greensboro

Happy May 1st! Today's theme for the City Daily Photo community is "bicycles."  Participating cities around the world are asked to post a photo related to bicycling in their respective communities. The above photo features the Cairn's Course art of the Downtown where Artist Thomas Sayre's artwork is featured. It is Phase 4 of the rail line. It was completed in 2021. Sayre, a Raleigh based artist, used earth and soil from this very area to cast the sculptures.*

Many people who work for the City of Greensboro are involved in the biking community. Bicycling in Greensboro is an organization that works to make Greensboro a more biking friendly community. The Greensboro Community Bike Shop is also really involved in helping people gain access to bicycles and to learn to ride- especially marginalized members of the community. They help people learn to repair their own bicycles. The above event (last spring) was a bike tune-up/repair clinic held on the greenway. Fun was had by all and tune ups were made free of charge. If you are a novice rider and want to ride in a group ride, the Easy Rider ride departs from Cycles de Oro on Tuesday evenings (see here). There are many cycling groups in Greensboro for all skill levels. All the bike shops can help you get connected to a group that is perfect for you.

Happy Wednesday, the First of May!

* read more here.

Happy New Year- Photo of Year 2023

Happy New Year! January 1st is the day the City Daily Photo members all select a photo of the year to represent their city. For 2023, we picked this street scene on South Elm Street. It was taken during the Festival of Lights on Friday, December 1st. We like it because it shows a family-friendly event downtown, one being enjoyed by people of all ages. It shows how Greensboro has managed to honor the profiles of the old buildings, yet keep the shops and services relevant in the 21st century. What was formerly Coe Grocery is now Hudson Hill, a shop that sews leather goods and clothing, honoring techniques and materials from the last century. 

2023 in Review: We also like to pick a "best" photo of each month. If you are new to Greensboro Daily Photo, don't visit very often, or are introducing someone new to the site, the January 1st post is always a good place to begin. 

December: Festival of Lights: https://www.greensborodailyphoto.com/2023/12/tree-lighting.html

Since the above photo comes from December, that gives us an opportunity to select another photo from December. We're picking the Center City Tree Lighting, also from the Festival of Lights. We love it because it showcases the first Greensboro City Park downtown and shows people coming together to enjoy each other.

November: Northeast High School Marching Band: https://www.greensborodailyphoto.com/2023/11/northeast-band.html

This photo was taken during the Veterans' Day Parade downtown. We love the energy of the drum major, as well as all of the camaraderie and great memories public school bands make for students. Performing arts are often underrepresented in schools and they add so much to creating well-rounded students.

October: Greensboro Arboretum: https://www.greensborodailyphoto.com/2023/10/greensboro-arboretum.html

This photo shows the beauty of Greensboro's scenery. The photo was taken in the arboretum in Lindley Park, a lovely public space in Greensboro.

September:  Denim History Revolution Mill: https://www.greensborodailyphoto.com/2023/09/denim-at-revolution.html

At one time, Greensboro was the top producer of denim in the world. Revolution Mill does a good job of sharing information about that history, as well as having textile and jeans-making machines in the hallway. Also, Revolution Mill was a functioning mill  owned by the Cone family.

August:  The Hopper Trolley:  https://www.greensborodailyphoto.com/2023/08/hopper-trolley-.html

Downtown Greensboro has implemented a trolley to transport people through town for free. It is a fabulous way to get people moving through town. 

July: Fourth of July Fireworks at Grasshopper Baseball Stadium: https://www.greensborodailyphoto.com/2023/07/stars-and-stripes-spectacular.html

The Fourth of July, Fun Fourth, and the baseball games are a great way to enjoy a holiday. This year, the baseball game sold out, but you could see the fireworks even if you weren't sitting in the stadium. 

June: Parisian Promenade at Bicentennial Gardens: https://www.greensborodailyphoto.com/2023/06/harajuku-fashion.html

Attending Parisian Promenade is a fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon and to kick off the summer months. Again, this was another free event open to the public. The young women in this photo are a friend group that loves to dress up in Harajuku fashion. This is proof positive that Greensboro is a cool, trendy place for young adults.

May: Krispy Kreme Doughploma: https://www.greensborodailyphoto.com/2023/05/krispy-kreme-doughploma.html

Krispy Kreme was founded in Winston-Salem in 1937 and now, they are an international company. On a special day in near graduation, they offer seniors free donuts. It as a fun time, Seniors line up in their caps and gowns and people from all different schools are in line talking, celebrating, and taking photos. This photo shows students at the Krispy Kreme on Battleground Avenue.

April: Lincoln Financial Group: https://www.greensborodailyphoto.com/2023/04/lincoln-financial.html

We'd hate to let a year go by without celebrating Greensboro's iconic downtown building, Jefferson Standard, Jefferson Pilot, Lincoln Financial Group. While the names of the businesses occupying the space have changed, the building remains a beacon of local history. We're still hoping to get an invitation to see the view from the top floor.

March: Temptations- Ain’t Too Proud at Tanger Center for the Performing Arts https://www.greensborodailyphoto.com/2023/03/temptations-tanger.html

We loved this photo so much because it shows the energy of the people moving outside of the Tanger Center for the Performing Arts. The photo has a "Beetles" Abbey Road air about it as people walk past the truck that carried equipment for the Temptations' show. Tanger is such a great addition to downtown.

February: Wayne, Downtown Mail Carrier Extraordinaire. https://www.greensborodailyphoto.com/2023/02/meet-wayne-usps-mail-carrier-extraordinaire.html

Each month we feature people and, at the end of the day, it is the great people of Greensboro who make it such a great place to live. In February, we featured Wayne.He knows all of the downtown business owners and managers by name, and, while he is fast and efficient on the job, he always takes time to acknowledge people and to check in on them. He is a fine example of a trustworthy federal employee with a great disposition and work ethic. In a world of craziness, be a Wayne!

January: Page/Grimsley High school Basketball https://www.greensborodailyphoto.com/2023/01/

Sports, especially friendly high school rivalries are the best and a great way to spend a Friday night. The January photo was taken at a Page/Grimsley basketball game. We don't remember who won that night, but we do know that people played and cheered their hearts out. 

Stop by tomorrow, the anniversary of Greensboro Daily Photo. We will begin our 16th year of production! And, if you will continue reading, we will continue to publish.

Happy New Year! Happy Monday!

Yokai, Formely Custom Care Dry Cleaners

501 North Greene Street at Paisley Street has a very new profile. Formerly, this lot was the home of Custom Care Dry Cleaners. Now, it is Yokai, They serve ramen, Korean fried chicken, small plates with an Asian flair (like edamame, rice cakes, and savory waffles). They also have an extensive cocktail and beer menu. With the Tanger Center and all of the new downtown housing options, people have been wanting more restaurant options in the north end of downtown Greensboro. There is indoor and outdoor seating. It is owned by Tal Blevins who also owns Machete Restaurant downtown. The owner had a chance to get to know what Greensboro restaurant aficionados like in a restaurant before opening Yokai. 

This izakaya-inspired establishment looks nice by day, but with pops of neon lighting, Yokai looks especially inviting at night. Izakaya is the Japanese version of what the Spaniards call tapas. The goal it to be able to drink and nibble at the same time. The food serves as a point of conversation. Yokai celebrated its grand opening on September 12th. It has already been open a month! Walk by and have a look, or even try it out if you are downtown for the Veteran's Day Parade today. 

Happy Veterans Day!

Farmers Market Flowers

Do you like cut flowers? The weekend is the perfect time to purchase flowers for the week. The above photo was taken at the farmers market at Sandy Ridge. Our local Greensboro farmers markets are quite the "go to" places for cut flowers. They are always so beautiful and and reasonably priced. Sometimes you get pre-packaged bouquets and often, you can design your own. The above couple look like they could be brother and sister. They worked very well together helping us find the perfect bouquet.

If you can't get to a farmers market, The Fresh Market also has a very nice selection of flowers. 

Happy August 1st. Today is theme day for the City Daily Photo community and August's theme is: Garden. While this isn't technically a garden, you know it takes gardens to make these beautiful flowers happen!

The Greensboro Summer Solstice Festival

Happy Summer Solstice Event! It will be held today in Lindley Park and the Greensboro Arboretum from 2:00- 10:00 pm. This festival is a fun way to spend an afternoon. The above photo was taken a few years ago and shows you the great length people go through to dress up and make the event fun. Not only performers, but everyone is encouraged to dress as fairies and sprites .

The solstice event was started in 2005. According to their website, "Mission: We aim to create an experience for our festival-goers that blends local artisans, performers and budding entrepreneurs with a little bit of magic and a lot of love, opening up imaginations to the possibilities in each of us." The event is so much fun and a chance to be playful and joyful, something that is proven to keep us healthy. It is also a fabulous opportunity to get great photos. The festival closes with a fire finale which is breathtaking in the dark. Children are absolutely mesmerized.

On another note, we have been members of the City Daily Photo community for the past 15 years. Cities all over the world post a photo a day of their city. The first of the month is theme day and the July theme is "climate". Our Summer Solstice photo fits perfectly with the theme. In Greensboro, the weather today is expected to be between 68º and 91º. So, if you are coming out to the festival, be prepared for a little bit of everything and find a way to protect yourself from the sun and to stay hydrated. We can't wait and don't care what the weather does. We're ready!

Happy Saturday!

Happy New Year: 2021 In Review

On Greensboro Daily Photo (GDP), and throughout the entire "City Daily Photo" community, January 1st is the day we post one special photo from the previous year. As we looked at the year in review, as "Best of Show" for 2021, we simply had to feature a photo of the Tanger Center for the Performing Arts. While the opening was delayed until 2021 due to COVID, when it did open, this performing arts center added so much to downtown. Now, Greensboro residents need only drive to 300 North Elm Street to see top quality performances. (See the original post from October 9th here).  

Now, we will present a line up of a memorable photo from each month. We tried to provide a variety of people, places, and events throughout the year. Of course, you can always go back and review the entire year, too!*  It is one of our favorite things to do on New Year's Eve. Some days are better than others; however, all in all, we're pretty proud of actually being able to maintain this daily effort and seeing the photos of Greensboro and the people we have met along the way makes us love the city more and more. So, click on the month, if you are so inclined.

January: For January, we selected the photo of Carolyn de Berry, staff photographer for, Triad City Beat. Meeting her is the beautiful, serendipitous aspect of GDP. In January, we were still in full lockdown pandemic mode. Public schools were still remote and people were not yet vaccinated. As we went to document progress on the downtown greenway, Carolyn was there, doing the same thing with her son. How fun for a photographer to capture a photographer in action. Greensboro is a city that still has a small town feel.

February: February, we feature the Barnhill statue of the Greensboro Four on the NCA&T campus. The Sit-Ins are such a giant part of Greensboro's history and contribution to the Civil Rights Movement.

March: Here, we feature the Downtown Greensboro Inc. staff. We actually went in to collect a prize we won from one of their of their initiatives to enter people in a drawing for every $25 spent downtown. We didn't win the cash, but we won a very nice package of Greensboro related items. Part of the reason we started GDP was to connect more with people who otherwise wouldn't be in our circle of influence, and this is another great example of how by giving you often get more in return- friendships and, well, a little bag of #DGSO goodness.

April: We would be remiss in not featuring the Greensboro Parks system. The April photo is the parks district behind the Greensboro Science Center. The parks have been such a great way to get out and do things and remain relatively COVID safe. May we never take our public parks for granted!

May: The Cone Health network has literally been a lifeline during the COVID year. While this photo only of Wesley Long Hospital, let is represent all of the healthcare workers who have worked tireless for us in 2021 and who are once again revving up to help those with COVID.

June: Piedmont Triad International Airport is such a great local resource and our connection to the wider world. Over the past few years, they've had renovations and added community art.

July: Schiffman's Jewelry has been a Greensboro institution since 1893. They sponsor so much locally. As examples, we have Schiffman's to thank for the Ring of Light in the Tanger Center; they installed a clock at the Rotary Carousel; they help fundraise for help find a cure for juvenile diabetes. At a time when many were questioning the future of retail, Schiffman's forged ahead with renovation and making their Friendly Center store a real destination..

August: The August feature is retired journalist, but very much active, Jim Schlosser. How could we have gone almost 13 years without featuring Jim? His family dates way back in Greensboro with one of his early Schlosser relatives being Greensboro's most famous stone mason. In the short time that we've known Jim personally, he has given us so many leads on people and places to feature. The day we interviewed him, we were at the Greensboro History Museum, another great, local treasure.

September: The North Carolina Folk Festival is a Greensboro treasure. We are so lucky to have it here. In addition to great music from around the world, the festival brings together the people of Greensboro who attend, volunteer, help visiting musicians, and more. If you like music and  haven't volunteered for the NC Folk Festival, we encourage you to do so. And, always attend and support vendors and support the businesses of sponsors and thank you for making this annual September event possible.

October: Tanger Center for the Performing Arts, The Orchestra Pit, is the October feature. We featured the exterior of the Tanger Center for the photo of the year, but this photo of the orchestra pit reminds us that a venue is only as great as the people who work there. Local musician Rusty Smith was so nice to a random child who leaned his head over to talk at intermission. He gave the pre-teen boy some quick suggestions and encouragement regarding his learning to play the trumpet. 

November: In November, Tommy Orange visited Greensboro. He wrote the book "There, There" a book that shares his first-hand insight into the urban Native American experience in Oakland, California. This visit was made possible by the Greensboro Public Library System. They have established a "One City; One Book" initiative and, with community input, they select a book for the whole city to read. So many book talks, exhibits, performances, and opportunities are made available leading up to the "One City; One Book" initiative. Especially those who read the book feel so connected to the book, the author, and all involved in the events.

December: The Festival of Lights returned this year after a year off due to COVID. People were so happy to get to be together again.  We like this photo because it shows all of the phone screens with people taking photos of the lighting of the tree. When we first started GDP in 2009, the cell phone and selfie photos weren't nearly as prevalent. By 2021, everyone wants a photo to share on social media. 

Be began 2021 wondering what on earth we would be able to share DAILY with the Greensboro still on lockdown. All in all, we are pretty proud of what we have been able to do. As we prepared this review, we were ever grateful for everything that we have been able to see, do, and document in 2021. Here's to a great 2022 for all of us! Please be sure to start back tomorrow for our annual anniversary post celebrating the beginning of Year 14. Also, we will talk a little more about the daily photo journey.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

 

* Start here if you really want to go back to January 1st, 2021.

Orb Weaver Spiders are Back!

Have you seen a garden orb spider yet? They seem to signal that fall is coming. Spiders seem more prevalent in fall. First, the ones born in spring have had all summer to grow. Second, many are out looking for mates. The black & yellow argiope, featured today, has built a web in northwest Greensboro, a spot that is very popular with orb spiders every year. If you look to the left of the spider, you see a bug that has been trapped in the web. There is also a captured prey in the center.

We returned to the above web after dark and there are no signs of anything in the web. Orb spiders tend to build vertical webs and eat them daily, for food energy and to keep the web clean. The longer a web remains, the less sticky it becomes; incentive to rebuild it daily. For self preservation from prey, spiders usually hide and wait for something to land in their cobweb. When they feel the vibration, they know that something has landed. The yellow and black spider is very common in Greensboro and in North Carolina. If you find one, observe it and see how long it remains in the same spot. They are non venomous but can bite if harassed. It will be best to observe from a distance.

Happy September 1st! See other photos from around the world in the City Daily Photo portal here.

The Best of 2019: Picture Perfect Night in Downtown Greensboro

 

Happy New Year! January 1st is the day the City Daily Photo community encourages participants to select their best photo from 2019. For Greensboro, we've selected this scene from LeBauer Park. The photo says so much about our city. The art overhead really helps define the space. Below, you see people from all neighborhoods coming together to watch a move on the big screen. This move was made possible through collaboration with UNCG. Greensboro has so many free events available to the community; events and public spaces contribute to the strength of a city.

As we look back over the year on Greensboro Daily Photo, we are reminded of all of the beautiful houses, the natural beauty of the city, the buildings and businesses, the educational institutions, the art, the weather and so much more. Even with 365 photos and paragraphs, we only begin to scratch the surface of all that is good in our city. In the end, it is the people who make Greensboro such a great place to live. Below, we've linked to twelve photos that are especially memorable. If you have time, please click through and have a visit. Thank you for reading and following GDP. Happy New Year. Here's to a great year to you, personally and to Greensboro as well!

January: The Ice Storm Cometh

February: The NC A&T Four

March: Firefighters from Station 21 

April: World Irish Dance Championship

May: Evening in LeBauer Park 

June: Summer Solstice Festival

July: Preservation Greensboro Tour of Lindley Park

August: MUSEP Free Concerts in the Parks

September: North Carolina Folk Festival

October: Reconsidered Goods Event Space

November: Kathy Clark and the Really, Really Free Market

December: The Running of the Balls

Blue Swallowtail Butterfly

This blue swallowtail butterfly was found in the parking lot of the Lake Higgins Marina. They are usually found in forests and there is a nature trail right beside the marina. The underneath part, the part visible when they are perched on a flower is black with orange spots. If you are able to spend time outside, observing nature, you will find many great living things, like butterflies. 

Today is the first of the month, so for the worldwide, City Daily Photo community, the theme is the color blue. Blue is for the blue swallowtail, whose habitat covers much of North America, especially where the pipevine plant is found. Happy Monday, happy getting outside to enjoy nature!

Keeping the Green in Greensboro Beautiful

This photo is from the October 7th Art in the Arboretum event. Greensboro Beautiful volunteers are putting a wristband on a person attending the event. Last year, Greensboro Beautiful celebrated its 50th year as a non-profit organization working to conserve and enhance the ecology and beauty of Greensboro (reference and more information, here). They partner with the City of Greensboro to coordinate and implement events like Art in the Arboretum.

We are featuring this older photo because Greensboro Daily Photo is part of the international group, City Daily Photo. The theme for March is "green." The green shirts above on volunteers at Greensboro Beautiful in the city of Greensboro,  really hit home with the green theme! As Greensboro Beautiful enters its second 50th year, let's hope it thrives over the next 50 years and may their 100 year celebration is 2068  be GIANT and GREEN!

Visit here, to see other green-themed photos from around the world.

Happy New Year 2019!

Happy New Year 2019! 

Each January 1st, members of the City Daily Photo community, worldwide. are asked to post their best photo of the year. This year, we selected the January 12th Shabbat Service at Temple Emanuel, honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It shows the cohesiveness of the Greensboro community, centered around the desire to have an equal and just society. The event attracted a diverse group of citizens. While the quality of the photo is not great, the event is a powerful and positive memory. It is our hope that 2019 will bring great things for Greensboro, that our community will continue to grow in ways that will bring us all joy, and we will work hard to support each other.

If you didn't have an opportunity to read GDP much this past year, here is a curated selection of photos from 2018. With all the lovely people, places, and events in Greensboro, it was hard to select just one a month. With so much to see and do in Greensboro, and being motivated by our readers, we are inspired to continue bringing you a photo a day in 2019.

January: Backpack Beginnings  

February: O. Henry Magazine Features Greensboro Daily Photo 

March: Students in Greensboro Protest in Support of the Movement Started in Parkland 

April: Mt. Zion Church 

May: Cascade Saloon 

June: Alley Off of Lewis Street

July: 60th Year of Greensboro's City Swim Meet

August: Twilight at Hamburger Square

September: North Carolina Folk Festival

October: Peace Festival 

November: Greensboro of Yesteryear 

December: Snow Days 

(See 2017 in review, here).

 

New Garden Friends Halloween Graveyard Tour

Every Halloween, retired Guilford College Professor of Quaker  and Religious Studies, Max L. Carter, leads a tour of the cemetery behind the New Garden Friends Meeting on Guilford College Road. Last night, approximately 100 people gathered as Max wove Quaker lore and American history in with personal facts about people buried in the cemetery.* Given the recent killings, last night's tour had a special emphasis on social justice. Quakers are pacifists, helped lead slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad,  and have done so much to help advance the cause of social justice throughout the world. While being Quaker is not a requirement for being buried in the cemetery, most people at least have ties to the community. As an example, poet and UNCG professor, Randall Jarrell, was not a Quaker but loved taking walks through the cemetery.

Above, Max is featured holding his father's lantern that was used on their family farm in Indiana when he was growing up. Behind him are some of the interpreters who appeared "in character" at the graves to tell you about the people who are buried there. Max, who retired from Guilford College three years ago, knows the graveyard so well that he could effortlessly run through it on a moonless night, explaining who is where from memory. His pace was brisk, because he wanted to fit in as much information as possible. After the walk, everyone was invited in to the fellowship hall for coffee, hot chocolate, and tea. Everything was perfect about the evening- even the weather.

The November City Daily Photo theme is FRIEND and this photo is a natural, as Quakers are also known as Friends. See other friends from around the world, here.

*learn more about the event, here.

 

Tanger Center for the Performing Arts

If you like to watch Greensboro change and grow, today's photo should interest you. It features the Stephen Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in the early stages of construction. Before you know it, there will be a 3,000 seat facility on North Elm Street downtown, to replace the War Memorial Stadium that was torn down almost four years ago in October 2014. Barnhill Contracting Company of Raleigh is doing the work. If you look beyond the structure in the foreground, you can see the X of two cranes and evidence that work is in progress; an indication the structure will be changing daily. In the background on the right you can see the Greensboro Historical Museum.

In its current state of nothing but steel beams in place, the structure is reminiscent of artwork in the modern, abstract, Brutalist style. It would be fun to see an artist paint this scene. We'll share it with the international group, the City Daily Photo community and see if someone will take up our challenge to paint it. Today's theme for the CDP community is music (see photos, here). If you get really quiet and listen, you can almost hear the Greensboro Symphony performing here. We have Stephen Tanger, CEO of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. and the City of Greensboro to thank for this much-needed performing arts center.

Air Fun Trampoline Park

Greensboro Daily Photo is part of the City Daily Photo Community, which started about 15 years ago with Paris Daily Photo. Each first of the month, there is a theme and city daily photo blogs worldwide participate in the theme. This month's theme is "Laugh!" which made us realize, at GDP, that we can be pretty serious. Finding a "Laugh!" photo was a far stretch. Finally, a photo from a couple of months ago surfaced: Air Fun Trampoline Park (AFTP).

AFTP is located in Golden Gate Plaza and, if you have ever taken children to a trampoline park, you are sure to have heard lots of laughter. Kids and adults alike bounce and play and giggle and just have unbridled fun. If you haven't been lately, trampolining has evolved.* There is over 30,000 square ft. of fun and hours and hours of laughter. Happy First of May!

*Learn more about AFTP, here.

See the gallery of other participating CDP photographers, here.

Happy New Year 2018

 
Happy New Year 2018!

Members of the City Daily Photo community are asked to post their "best" photo of the previous year on January 1st.  The photo we selected for this year was one taken at the National Folk Festival as it closed out the 3rd and final year in Greensboro. The photo resonates with us because it shows three facets of downtown. In the foreground, a young boy plays alone, seemingly unaware that a monumental event for Greensboro is drawing to a close. Whitney Houston said it best, "I believe the children are our future teach them well and let them lead the way." 

The middle layer of the photo features the hustle and bustle of people making food selections at the folk festival's diverse assortment of food trucks. It takes people having things to do, feeling safe, and enjoying each other's company to make a city livable.  In the background is Greensboro's skyline, with the iconic Lincoln Financial Building giving a nod of approval at a downtown that has, once again, become a vibrant destination for its residents. A robust business community provides the financial structure to make special events possible.

Here is a GDP memory from each month from 2017; posts that proved especially popular with readers and that showcase the people, places, and events in our great city. Let's all work together to make 2018 a great year for Greensboro. We look forward to continuing to share a photo a day with you!

January: Triad North Carolina Women's March

February: Greensboro Grub & City 616

March: Howard Coble Intermodal Transport Center

April: NCCJ

May: Julian Price Home

June: Hunter Elementary

July: Happy 70th Wrangler

August: Eclipsed Eclipse

September: GCS Teacher of the Year

October: President Trump Came to Greensboro

November: Veterans Day

December: Shaw Photography Group . 

 

 

The Bluest Eye

This image of piercing blue eyes on half a face is found on a cinder block building that houses a video store. It is located on Spring Garden Street, close to UNCG's campus. As you drive west, this mural causes you to think hard about the power of eye contact. In this age when everyone walks, face down, staring at a phone screen, this stare is disquieting. Those blue eyes really command attention. When you stand near this image, it does seem as if the person is staring you down. Because the blue eyes are the only real color in the mural, it evokes an image of Toni Morrison's book title, The Bluest Eye. While the mural has nothing to do with the book, these are, indeed some of the bluest eyes you will ever see. If you met the artist, what would say/ask? 

There was a time when you could hardly find a mural in Greensboro. Now, they seem to be appearing everywhere. Do you have a favorite? Sometimes, they actually look prettier in a photograph, when some of the clutter around them is beyond the camera lens. To be sure, they are fun to photograph. Happy Tuesday.

Young at Heart

Happy August 1st. Can you believe August is upon us? Every first of the month, the City Daily Photo community sponsors a theme day and this month's theme is "Young at Heart." The obvious choice is the face of a senior citizen, someone like Iris Apfel who is well into her 90s, but seems as if she is in her 40s.  Indeed, we know many people in Greensboro who are older and eternally young at heart. In the end, we decided to select an older dog. You can tell by the gray on her face that she has some age to her. She was adopted from a no-kill shelter in the mountains of North Carolina. She had been there for a very long time and had been passed over a lot. However, when visitors and volunteers were with her, she seemed genuinely interested in being with the person handling her. Many of the other dogs seemed more interested in simply being out of confinement. Today, she is living the good life in Greensboro. She is active, loves to go on walks, run and play ball. She is always ready for a road trip and is planning one in that little Airstream in her back yard.

Guilford County has many options for adopting dogs that need a new home. If you Google "dog adoption Greensboro" many great organizations will appear in your search. If you are looking for a dog, we hope you will adopt, and that you find a dog that is a good fit for your living situation and your family.  Also, we hope you will consider adopting an older dog. So often they are, indeed, young at heart. By the way, the above mutt wants you to know that yesterday was National Mutt Day. We were celebrating during the photo shoot! Note the wagging tail!

LimeBike Bicycles: In Motion!

Bicycles are taking UNCG's campus by storm and, yesterday, WXII NEWS was on campus to feature them. LimeBike, UNCG, and the City of Greensboro are working together to make the hi-tech bicycle venture work. There is no kiosk or docking station as the bikes work with a phone app. a 30 minute ride is 50 cents for university students and employees and $1.00 for the general public. The system is accessible and reasonably priced. To pick up or drop off a bike, you just have to know where to pick up and drop off bicycles. When you log on to the app, you can track the bike that is closest to you. Each bike has anti-theft locks and alarms. When you are finished riding, all you have to do is push down the rear wheel lever to lock the bike. The app will provide you with a trip summary and you are no longer responsible for the bike.*

LimeBike is a California startup and UNCG is their first campus. They selected UNCG because of Greensboro's weather and the fact that UNCG is a bike friendly community (reference). If you are interested, you really ought to try one out this summer while there is less traffic. The first ride is free and, even with UNCG's campus expanding, you can get from one end to the other in less than 30 minutes.

Currently, there are 150 bikes on campus and they plan to bring more in the fall. Below, you see two riders being filmed on Spring Garden Street and a closeup of a bike (click on the picture to make it larger). Reference and more information (here).    The July theme for the City Daily Photo community is motion. Rent a LimeBike and MOTION it will be, just like in the photo below.

Magnolia Blossom

The June 1st theme for the City Daily Photo sites is "nature" and we've uploaded one of Greensboro's mighty magnolia blossoms for the world to see. At the moment, they are blooming all around town and the scent is heavenly. This ornamental, evergreen tree is especially popular in the American southeast and widely cultivated in warmer climates around the world. They can grow to 90 feet tall and the blossoms can grow to the size of a dinner plate. If you have a magnolia in your yard, you may notice an increase in the beetle population. Beetles pollinate this flower that has been around since before bees existed. That's pretty old.

The blossoms only last a day, but, if you are having an event in your home, if you pick them just before the event, their fragrance will fill your house with a lovely scent. They are fun to photograph and to draw. We're glad we took this photo yesterday because last night's pelting rain was pretty hard on them. Happy June 1st; go here to see some great nature shots around the world in the CDP Nature Theme Day..

Green Bean

The above photo features the new mural of the Green Bean Coffee Shop. The beautiful pattern reminds us of The William Morris Arts and Crafts wallpapers of the 1860s. We're not sure what they will do to the part near the front of the store. At the moment, the chalk plaster bust of Elvis Presley greets patrons as they arrive and features store mugs and a couple of remaining T-shirts for sale with the store's cursive logo. Likely, the Green Bean on South Elm Street is getting a complete makeover. Historically, the store has always featured a rotating exhibit of the art of local artists. It will be interesting to see if they are able to integrate artwork into the above mural, which is a piece of artwork, itself. The Elm Street location of the Green Bean has been open since 2002; serving up great coffee and café food for fifteen years.

Today is theme day for the City Daily Photo community. Click, here, to see how the rest of the world interpret's "Let's eat." Our photo doesn't feature food per se, but food can be had at this establishment. The Green Bean even caters, which we only recently learned. Happy Monday! It is already May!

The Rainbow Stops Here!

Parts of Greensboro experienced strong rains Thursday night and they continued into Friday. Today's photo was taken from Mill Street yesterday afternoon at around 4:00 pm When we entered the Starbucks at that corner, it was raining. Upon leaving a few minutes later, the eastward sky was filled with sun and a rainbow. It was still dark and wet to the west. We were struck by the billboard message about diabetes and the fact that the rainbow seemed to cut through the sign. Should we interpret that image as a sigh that beauty will trump the horrors of diabetes?

Today is April 1st, meaning it is time for Theme Day with the City Daily Photo community. This month's theme is wet. You know where there are rainbows, there is water. Yes, it was very wet to the west. Whether you are in Greensboro or elsewhere, may your weekend be filled with rainbows and joy.

See the CDP "wet" photos around the world, here.

D is for Downtown on February First

February 1st is a big day for Greensboro. February 1, 1960 at 4:30 p.m., four African-American college students attending NC A&T University, sat down at the above Woolworth Store at the "whites-only" lunch counter insisting on being served a cup of coffee. The students remained at the lunch counter, a form of non-violent protest, until the store closed that evening. These sit-ins continued and grew in participation, building momentum for the Civil Rights Movement.

The above photo was taken on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday at "ground zero" for the Greensboro Sit-Ins. These children were downtown with their father spending the day learning about Civil Rights and skipping along West February 1.  The building is no longer Woolworth Co, but the International Civil Rights Center and Museum (IRCM).

The February theme for the City Daily Photo Community is "Loving Life". We will share this photo with the CDP Community because these three, happy children exemplify "Loving Life." Today also happens to be ABC Wednesday and "D" is for "Downtown", a fabulous place for teaching children about our city and its history. If you are interested in helping to support Greensboro civil rights history, the ICRM is holding a fundraiser today to help fund field trips for children 336-274-9199. For the price of a designer cup of coffee, you can help a child learn about civil rights.

City Daily Photo's November 2016 Theme: Out of Focus

Greensboro Daily Photo has been a member of the City Daily Photo community for almost 8 years. The first day of the month is theme day and November's theme is "out of focus". To our knowledge, this is the first time for that theme. Blurry photos were much more common before the digital era. Digital cameras almost don't let you take blurry photos. Do you recognize where this photo was taken in Greensboro?

It was taken in Greensboro during this past winter, just south of the railroad tracks on the east side of South Elm Street. The waterpower in the background is located at Bennett College. As you can see, it was taken at sunset and people were out walking their dogs- probably a First Friday. We like the mood, in spite of the lack of focus. This upcoming Friday is First Friday and downtown will be busy. We promise you we'll take better photos this weekend!  To see out of focus photos from around the world, visit HERE.

Greensboro's Public Libraries

Happy September first. The theme for the City Daily Photo community this month is "libraries." What a great theme. Greensboro has such great public libraries, we could publish a photo a day for a month about our libraries and still not do them justice. Our main library downtown and the seven branch libraries are dynamic and engaging places. The above photo was taken at the Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch off of Hobbs Road. This branch is located beside the nearly one-hundred acre Price Park.It was getting close to 8pm when we arrived to take a photo, so the above children's section was pretty empty. However, the study rooms had users and the computers were also being put to good use. People were still arriving, as seen in the thumbnail below.

Our libraries offer so many special services for adults and children and  are a wealth of resources. Here is an example of a few upcoming events at Kathleen Clay Edwards in September: 1) learning about plants along North Carolina's roadsides; 2) learning about chimney swifts; 3) a learn to fish session at nearby Lake Higgins; 4) a tiny house tour; 5) a family night hike; 6) a CEU credit opportunity for teachers to learn about using science-based storybooks. Libraries events are free and open to the public. If you haven't been to a library in awhile, you should treat yourself to a visit. To see libraries from around the world, visit the City Daily Photo Theme Day portal, here. There are some beauties. See a couple more shots of Kathleen Clay, below.

Greensboro's Skyline

Today, in the City Daily Photo community, the theme is "skyline." Participating cities around the world will share photos of their skyline.* In preparing for today, it occurred to us that we don't really have a good skyline shot. So, we're sharing a view of the iconic JP building, which is Greensboro's most recognized building. This view is from East Washington Street. 

We'd love your input with respect to the best place for a skyline shot. In the meantime, google "Greensboro skyline images" and see what some of our other great, local photographers have to offer. Happy Monday. Can you believe it is the first of August?

*See skylines of other cities around the world, here.

Looking Down & Looking Up (Friendly Center Expansion)

Here, we see workers on the new part of Friendly Shopping Center that will be located between the Apple Store and Whole Foods. When finished, it will add 15,000 more square feet of retail shopping and dining. This new section looks a lot more contemporary than some of the other parts. It looks like a modern work of art. We're confident that the restaurants and stores here will be well attended. Workers have been diligently preparing the outside to get it ready for the community.

Today is Theme Day for the City Daily Photo Community. The theme is "Looking Down." Well, while the vantage of the photographer is looking up, the workers had to "look down," to keep their orientation and to get from Point A to Point B.

Happy looking up and looking down and not falling down any rabbit holes as we slide in to the weekend. And, head on over to Friendly Center and check out the progress!

U is for Union Square Campus-- and Universities!

The above photo features the Union Square Campus at the corner of South Elm Street and Gate City Boulevard. Long gone from this lot is the Tri-City Seafood shop that stood here for years (with the iconic mermaid painted on the side). The Union Square Campus is a training and education facility for the healthcare professions. The collaborative effort involves UNCG, NCA&T, GTCC, and Cone Health. Additionally, there are several business and government partners involved, including the City of Greensboro.

Included in the plans for the completed campus are several levels of nursing education and a radiography program. For the completed and equipped facility, the estimated cost will be between $37- 40 million. How wonderful that all of these local institutions are collaborating and sharing equipment.* The 103,000 square ft. facility is already closer to being completed than we took this photo last month.

This is the "U" for our ABC Wednesday, A-Z Urban Finds series. It also serves as the "Shadow and Highlight" entry for the June 2016 Theme Day for the City Daily Photo meme. By the end of the day, this post will have made it around the world and back.

Greensboro has so much to celebrate and share!

*Click here for more details.

Books Galore

This photo was taken on Friday night at the annual book sale at St. Francis Episcopal Church on Lawndale Drive-- the calm before the storm. Saturday was when items were $10 a grocery bag- as much as you can stuff in the bag and carry. People know their genre and categories. Late Friday night, categories of choice were popular fiction, military history, dog handling, and classics. On Saturday, there were crowds of people trying to gather their year's supply of reading. A Greensboro tradition since the late 1950's, this is the 58th annual book sale.  While in this room, time stands still and shoppers forget that we are living in digital device era.

Today is Theme Day for the City Daily Photo community and the May theme day challenge is to convey the idea of SMELL through a photo. Well, you can imagine the smell of a room full of books. If you love that old book smell, but are totally committed to reading on your Kindle, you can order this unisex perfume "Dead Writers." With prominent notes of clove, vanilla, and tobacco, it smells like old books. Alternatively, you can look for book sales in Greensboro or hang out at one of our fabulous libraries.

"Heimat" on Elm Street

Today is theme day for the City Daily Photo community around the world. The March theme is "heimat" which in German means something along the lines of "homeland; being comfortable and happy; and feeling that this is the place you belong." For "heimat," we're sharing this view of Elm Street Center. Elm Street Center shows how Greensboro has worked hard to bring the downtown area back to life and the way we like to keep the building's façade intact, yet make the it functional for the 21st century.

The above photo was taken on Saturday night when the men on the balconies were in suits and ties, enjoying the balmy night air. Were it not for the cars, one would think the photo was taken in the 1950's. The building dates to 1949, when it was built for the locally-owned Ellis Stone Department Store.  Today, Elm Street Center has two elegant ballrooms, The Empire Room and the Regency Room and they stay booked.

A special thanks to Mainz Daily Photo, for introducing the CDP community to a new word and the place JB considers his "heimat."  See the "heimat" entries from around the world, here.

Coffee Shop Culture

Greensboro has seen several coffee shops open over the last decade. They try very hard to serve their own neighborhood, while also attracting people throughout the city. Many are owned by 30somethings living their dream and opening their own business; and doing a good job of keeping their customers happy. People of all ages are seen frequenting this family-oriented place.

Geeksboro and owner Joe Scott are no exception. Open since November 2013, Geeksboro is located on the edge of Irving Park, in the strip of shops along Lawndale Drive. It is billed as an arty hangout serving, coffee, snacks, and craft brews. Downstairs, they show indie movies and documentaries. They have monitors for electronic games as well as board games galore. People also bring their own games and controllers and meet up for competitions. Some nights are themed. For example, tonight is knitting and craft night as well as the night for people who play the card game, Magic.

We have found that people who frequent Geeksboro are friendly and very willing to answer questions about their game-- as long as you don't interfere at an intense point. (Don't worry, you can tell). In 2011, UNESCO declared the coffee houses of Vienna to be an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Austria* and you can see why. As more and more tangible goods get delivered through the internet or get replaced by apps, it is the "intangibles", like socialization and places to spend free time, that will be the brick-and-mortar moneymakers of the 21st century.

February's theme for City Daily Photo is "scene from a coffee house." See photos of coffee houses, around the world, here. See a scene from Geeksboro, above. 

*reference here.

Happy New Year 2016

Every New Year's Day, the City Daily Photo blogs asks participants to select their favorite photograph of the year. For GDP, the task was daunting; however, in the end, we selected this photo of an autumn event in Lindley Park. The Lindley Park neighborhood has worked diligently to build a sense of community. They host neighborhood events and have several businesses that keep people socializing in the neighborhood: Bestway Grocery Store has its famous "beer wall"; their coffee shop, with its many rooms, encourages hanging out; there are restaurants at all price points; a Saturday farmers' market is set up at the corner of Elam and Walker Avenue; and their laundry mat serves up beer and conversation. Their arboretum hosts many well-attended events; they have a community newsletter, started several years ago by an elementary school student and they work together for community grants- like "Knit the Bridge". The above photo was taken at a backyard keep-it-local art event hosted by Lindley Park potter, Christine Brown. As seen in the above photo, her yard is inviting and open to neighbors of all ages.

One of the big changes in Greensboro in 2015 is that the City Council instated participatory budgeting. We are the first city in the south to launch this initiative. Residents in each of Greensboro's 5 districts are invited to decide how to spend $100,000 in their district.* We hope you will join us in our New Year's resolution to be more involved in our community. Helping your district decide how to spend your $100,000 is a good start. They even have a Facebook page!

Regardless of where you live, we hope 2016 is the best year yet. We thank you for reading Greensboro Daily Photo. Please share our link on your Facebook page and let all of your friends, and neighborhood associations, know we are here. Tomorrow is GDP's 7th anniversary. On Saturday, we'll be starting our 8th year. Please stop back and help us celebrate! Happy New Year! 

* Learn all about Greensboro's participatory budgeting initiative, here.

Shop Window

Today's theme for the City Daily Photo community is "Shop Window." When we were in the post office the other day, we fell in love this little shop window set up to sell stamps. It is such a cute idea and the postal employee in the window was so helpful. We got all of the stamps we needed, without waiting in the main line. And the Peanuts Christmas stamps, available throughout the United States (not just Greensboro), are absolutely adorable. This is the 50th anniversary year of A Charlie Brown Christmas so the postage stamp idea and the little stamp window are brilliant.

Unfortunately, we didn't get "Lucy's" name the other day, but we can assure she was a lot more agreeable than Charle Brown's Lucy! Stop by the post office on Battleground, in the shopping center near Earthfare, for a great dose of holiday spirit and a great selection of stamps. Actually, many of Greensboro's postal employees have a great reputation for being super friendly and helpful.  Greensboro is lucky. Get to your nearest post office soon while the NEW STAMPS ARE IN!  

Finally, if you want to see other creative "shop windows" around the world, look, here!

City Daily Photo's October Theme Day: Shelter

Today, we're featuring another photo of a field near Sedalia. This photo shows you how, often, there is a house next to the field. In many cases, the people in the house tend the tobacco, which is a lot of work. You have to plant, weed, water, sucker (remove the top growth), harvest, and cure, all at the right time and all under conditions as optimal as possible. Even people who smoke aren't likely to recognize a tobacco field when they see one. To be sure, people who work the fields see tobacco in their sleep.

Today's theme for the worldwide, City Daily Photo (CDP) October Theme Day is "shelter." We thought about photographing a tobacco barn where the leaves are strung and hung to dry. Tobacco barns are still a common sight in rural Guilford County. However, also noteworthy are the homes with tobacco fields in their side yards. 

Happy First of the Month for the CDP community. If you want to take a quick trip around the world and see shelters far and wide, visit, here. Otherwise, just enjoy our post and next time you are on Highway 70 just east of Greensboro, look for this seagreen abode on the westbound side of the road. Typical of our luck, as we were taking this photo, the owners came home. It is not easy to be discreet at the edge of a tobacco field on the side of a busy highway, wearing a dress and with camera in hand! At least we weren't interested in taking any leaves!

Greenway at Stadium Park

Demolition on the old North State Chevrolet service building began at the end of June 2013 and, now, two years later, a complex of 70 urban apartments has erased any sign of the old building and a bygone era (read more, here). The Jones family, owner of the property and the Chevrolet business, is part owner of the new project. It is always nice when new ventures retain their old ties to a community. The new facility, known as Greenway at Stadium Park, is the newest apartment complex in town. Built on the northern edge of the  baseball stadium, the apartments are prime downtown real estate. Some people can watch baseball games from their apartments. Greenway at Stadium Park is the sister property of Greenway at Fisher Park and bills itself as an "urban, luxury, boutique apartment community." There are many amenities at this apartment complex and they have common areas, like the one photographed above, to bring residents together, thereby experiencing a sense of community in their urban living.

Today is the first of the month and for the City Daily Photo community, it means THEME DAY. September's theme is curiosities. See curious things about cities around the world, here. Look at the above photo and enjoy the curious view of Greensboro that we are sharing. On the right, you are seeing through the building to West Smith Street. On the left, you are seeing a reflection of the view across the street on North Eugene Street. That leg poking out from the brick wall, adds a little bit more to the curiousness. We can't wait to see people sitting in and enjoying all of those mod-looking chairs. It will be a great place to people watch- to see and to be seen!

Great Day to Bike

Greensboro loves its bicycles and we're extending the greenways and making the community more bicycle friendly every year. The International City Daily Photo Group, of which Greensboro Daily Photo is a part, hosts a theme on the first day of every month. The August 2015 theme is bicycles. Last week, we accidentally published this photo, along with a second photo the same day. Not many people noticed this one. Our intent was to publish it on bicycle theme day. If you have seen it before, we apologize, but we hope you enjoy it.

In the above photo, a young person, who appeared to be about middle school age, was walking with his bicycle across Gorrell Street at Murrow Boulevard. While the photo was just taken last week, it looked like a scene from 60 plus years ago. There is nothing in the photo to indicate that it was taken in the 21st century. A child in a collared shirt with plain, black shorts, a simple bicycle, is walking past a bus stop and a fire hydrant, near a flat-roofed brick building. The street scene is hard to date. There were no earphones, cell phone, or ultra-fancy tennis shoes, which makes it even harder to believe that this is a current photo. 

Sometimes, it is nice to put down the technology, grab your bike, and go rom Point A to Point B. We hope you have a chance to get out on a bicycle and uncover some interesting scenes around the city. If you are one of GDP's visitors from the CDP portal, welcome! 

Y is for Yum Yum

Yesterday, during Greensboro's torrential downpour, we had the pleasure of waiting out the deluge at Yum-Yum Better Ice Cream and Hot Dogs at 1219 Spring Garden Street. Clint was there to wait on us. He is a member of the Aydelette family that started Yum-Yum in 1906. How incredible to have a family business that is 109 years old! Generations of Aydelettes have been serving ice cream to generations of Greensboro residents. Not only do people who live in Greensboro love Yum-Yum, but when people move away, this little ice cream shop, on the western edge of UNCG's campus, becomes a must-visit destination. Yesterday, we were also lucky enough to get a scoop of watermelon ice cream. If you like watermelon ice cream, hurry, they will only have it for about three weeks.

Today is a double theme day for Greensboro Daily Photo. First, we're participating in ABC Wednesday. Today's letter for our ABC Local Series is "Y" and "Y" is for Yum-Yum! Also, for the City Daily Photo community, the July 1st theme is "upside down."  Clint very graciously agreed to our seemingly-silly request to be served a watermelon ice cream cone upside down. So, we've got both themes covered, and we had the pleasure of spending a little time at very special business that works so hard to serve Greensboro with a smile. By the way, if you order an ice cream cone, it will be served to you right side up (see below)!  By the way, that giant portion is only one scoop! Follow Yum Yum on Facebook to keep up with news, like what seasonal flavors are being featured.

Revolution

Today is theme day for the City Daily Photo Community (CDP) and for May 1st, they have chosen "Revolution."  CDP bloggers have a lot of leeway as to how to interpret the theme. We've decided to address it literally. Our contribution was taken at the March reenactment of the Revolutionary War; specifically, the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. This event happened on March 15, 1781, twenty-seven years before Greensboro became a city. General Greene's troops did so well in the battleship, under his leadership, that they decided to name our city after him. We lost the battle but won the war. Above, we see a photo of the cavalry approaching the field.

As we all charge, full steam ahead, into the weekend, we are thankful to live in a peaceful city and hope that "revolution" remains a thing in our past and "charge" is a shopping term, as opposed to a call to engage in warfare!

My Camera Shy Self Portrait: City Daily Photo

Every first of the month is theme day for the City Daily Photo community. City Daily Photo bloggers around the world share a photo on a given theme. This month's task is to share a photo which, somehow, encompasses the camera-shy photographer.

Our contribution isn't very original, but it features Mrs. GDP talking a photo of her shadow on one of the first days of spring in Greensboro, NC. It was taken (with a cell phone camera) while on a nature walk in the northwest part of town. The setting sun made her shadow long and well-defined. While Mrs. GDP really is camera shy, she loves being a part of this worldwide network of people sharing a photo-a-day of their respective cities. It is a great way to learn about cities before visiting them and, a great way to make new friends, like YOU!

Happy Camera Shy Self Portrait Day. Great idea for a theme and for other camera-shy examples, see here.

What Would We Miss?

The people make Greensboro a great place to live. The above photo features a night tour on Elm Street and it says so much about our city. First, about fourteen people were participating in the tour, showing how comfortable we are being out at night. Second, most are wearing blue jeans and the Cone brothers turned Greensboro into a jeans/denim empire. Third, our city takes on a beautiful patina at night; and look at the intensity of the denim under the glow of the streetlights. The night of the photo, Carolina History & Haunts was offering a tour called Nightmares Around Elm Street, a play on words from the famous movie Nightmare on Elm Street. 

Today, we're faced with a dilemma, because it is a double theme day. The City Daily Photo community's 1st of the month theme day for February 2015 is to show a photo of what we would miss most about our city if we moved. Also, on Sundays, at GDP, we always post something of a religious/spiritual nature. Now... to combine the two themes. Were we to move from Greensboro, above all, we would miss the PEOPLE, and what is more spiritual than spending time in fellowship with others?  All places of worship depend on people to fill them and to do good deeds in their name. So, would miss you, dear Greensboro residents, if we left! 

Happy February 1st to all y'all-- our local visitors as well as to our friends from the City Daily Photo community.

City Daily Photo-- WORKER

Today is theme day for the City Daily Photo community and the theme is "worker." In the above photo, you can see a worker from D.H. Griffin in the middle of a demolition project at Chandler Concrete on Mill Street. Perhaps you've driven by Chandler Concrete for years; maybe noticed it when shopping at Edward McKay Books; marveled at this elaborate operation so close to downtown. We finally got around to featuring their business (here) in late September. Lo and behold, if we didn't see it getting demolished a little over a month later. 

The two-acre site has been a concrete operation since 1946. However, the land has been sold to Mill Street Commons LLC and will likely become retail, matching the surrounding businesses. Additionally, the Greenway will go right by the property and a bike ride will be a little more pleasant without the noise and dust from concrete in the making. 

You can read more about Chandler Concrete, here. Also, read more about the company's relocation to South Elm-Eugene and their restrictive covenant in the Mill Street sale that will enhance the Greenway (here). No wonder CEO Ted Chandler was voted one of the Triad's most influential people, always working hard for his company and, it appears, for Greensboro!