By noon throughout the city, the faithful find their way to faded green storefronts.
Inside this lime-green storefront, votives burn on a small altar and shelves brim with crystals, potions and religious statues.
Awards are also handed out for top commercial block, greenest storefront, window box, street tree bed and community garden.
Its colours, of red, white and green, decorate storefront awnings and even a fire hydrant.
The bright, Kelly green-trimmed storefront with tables has 14 panini presses, lined up at attention to receive various composed sandwiches and heat them in about five minutes.
Potted fig trees, Meyer lemons, hydrangeas, geraniums, lantana, heliotrope, sages and rosemary are only a few of the jungle of plants that make this storefront a green oasis.
The company's silvery metal storefront and green awnings look freshly upgraded, but the salesroom has been closed for a few months and no contact information is posted on the door.
The owner, George Beane, said the color had been chosen in 1983 by his architects, Peix & Crawford -- they also designed the unusual storefront of green marble with red enamel paint two blocks north.
Patrons still see an attractive, upscale storefront with dark-green striped wallpaper, brass chandeliers and sconces, botanical prints and framed mirrors.
