for the last 10 years we have been traversing the south, and beyond, in search of inspiration, knowledge, and beauty.

below is a list of some of the spots we have visited on these journeys and the people we have met...click through to read about them...hopefully one of these will spark your curiosity.

enjoy exploring, be it virtually or in the real world!

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Alabama

Florence:
alabama chanin, alabama chanin organic cotton project, billy reid shindig, helen keller birthplace, rosenbaum house by frank lloyd wright, trowbridges, the wall

Fort Payne:

little river sock mill

Hale County:
rural studio

Seale:
butch anthony, doo-nanny’s community kitchen, drive-thru gallery,

Sheffield: Old Mill

CALIFORNIA

San Francisco:
oceanside farming, heath ceramics

FLORIDA

Apalachicola: Beach town

Cape San Blas: cypress forests, indian pass raw bar

Lakeland: florida southern college

Pensacola: fort pickens, chassahowitzka river springs

Safety Harbor: 1206 third street

St. Augustine: castillo de san marcos

Wewahitchka: tupelo honey

Georgia

North Georgia

apple country, foxfire, georgia folk pottery museum, goats on the roof, gibbs garden, old gym, one room house

Athens:
a little gift basket, arrow community cookbook, bloodroot blades, cameron garrard of eloquin studio, Church-wadell-brumby house, farmer’s market, garden & gun does athens, grove creek farm, home.made, jittery joes, lou kregel’s flowers, normal hardware, pecan harvesting, pulaski heights bbq, rinne’s light drawings, r.wood studio, shields etheridge farm, smokey road press, southern star studio, studio visit: block and brayer, studio visit: cameron garrard of eloquin, studio visit: carol john, studio visit: claire clements, studio visit: jess dunlap, studio: leslie snipes, studio visit: nettles and french, studio visit: tin cup, studio visit: willaby, supper club , swimming hole , the brick house: studio and gardens, the national’s winter gin and tonic, the r.e.m. steeple + nuci's space, treehouse kid&craft, west broad street garden, wildwood revival, woodland gardens

Atlanta:
arabia mountain, botanical garden, eatocracy does the south, farmburger, food trip, The goat farm, little arabia mountain, solomon projects, treehouse kid and craft, truly living well urban farm, whipstitch

Bostwick:
jack’s christmas tree farm, tiny town of Bostwick

Carlton:
neat pieces

Cartersville:
etowah

Clarkesville:
panther creek, sweet olive farm

Crawfordville:
home of alexander h. stephens

Eatonton:
uncle remus museum

Elbert County:
another quarry, county fair, georgia guidestones, the quarry

Ellijay:
apple country

Farmington:
studio visit: john cleaveland

studio visit: geoff pickett

Greene County:                             vickers farm

Greensboro:
dreamcatcher garden shop, holcomb’s bbq, ripe thing farmer’s market

Helen:
nora mills

Jefferson:

shields-ethridge farm

Lexington:
buffalo creek blueberry farm, goodness grows nursery, paul’s bbq, shaking rock park

Loudsville:
little houses

Madison:
adorable shacks in madison, bar-ba-que, madison after christmas, nolan house, nolan house: round 2 , nolan house: last round, tin railroad building

Madison County:
kinfolk honey harvest, moonflower

Monroe: william harris homestead

Morgan County:
steffen thomas museum, the general store

Neese:
natural food farms

North High Shoals:
a country retreat

Oglethorpe:
hawkes creek

Rabun County:
foxfire

Rayle:                                        long tin barn

Rome:
old mill at berry

Statham:                                   factory antiques

Tallulah Falls:
tallulah gorge

Watkinsville:
reeds odds and ends

Winterville: community garden

 

MIDDLE GEORGIA

Brooklyn:
floria’s gallery

Clinton:                  tour of the town

Columbus:
butterfly house, historic district, victory garden

Juliette:
fried green tomatoes

Milledgeville:
andalusia

Rebecca:                     rebecca, ga

Sparta:
abandoned house, brown parcel press: at the studio, brown parcel press: from scratch, graves barn, mt. zion church

Talbotton: old depot

 

Thomson:
watermelon festival

 

MINNESOTA

artist’s point, kendalls, studio visit: john thomas

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MISSISSIPI

Ocean Springs: 

walter anderson museum of art

Oxford:
bowerbird collective

Starkville:

NORTH CAROLINA

Asheville:
meadow’s dry goods, short street cakes, villagers

Hendersonville: carl sandburg’s home, connemara farms

Marshall: smoke signals

Pisgah National Forest: sliding rock

TEXAS

Marfa: city exploration

VIRGINIA

Floyd:
schoolhouse fabrics