Hello, dear friends! How have you all been? I have returned from my long-planned photographic journey to the Southern United States, where I found beauty, history, stunning locations and friendship far beyond my imaginings. Perfect weather, spring bloom and wonderful company made it hardly seem like work.
Wisteria entwines and festoons trees and structures, creating irresistible flowery vignettes.Lots of pink and purple!Rocking chairs and front porches speak of lazy evenings in the coming heat of summer.
And a local florist shop celebrates spring with old-fashioned blooms.
We’d planned to spend an hour or two in Madison but stayed the entire day, walking the back roads, taking photographs and dining too well on traditional Southern fried chicken with sweet potatoes and peach cobbler before heading out of town toward Savannah. We vowed to return to Madison one day.
I have certainly missed you all. Thank you so much for your comments on my last post – I hope you have been well and can’t wait to catch up on your adventures. See you in a day or so with much more!
love,
– g
GORGEOUS !! I want to live here ! ;)
Swoon! I wish I could travel more! Lovely photographs. I would love a home like these with gates and gardens. Swoon, happy Sunday to you!
Theresa
Dear Georgianna, welcome back. We have missed your beautiful photographs. These incredible photographs make up for it.
So much pink! Its beautiful! What a wonderful place to take a working holiday, I can see how it would not seem like work at all. Even with walking without a camera, a place as beautiful as this would soothe even the most savage soul.
Our spring is finally blossoming here, I have photos still on my camera to go through. Its like saving the memories of all this spring for dark and dreary winter days. I am looking forward to seeing more of your travels!!
OHHHHH, they came out so beautiful!! Can't wait to see more from your stop here in Beaufort!! Miss you already!!!
Dear Georgianna,
what a beautiful pink house and so many wonderful white and pink blossoms!
I wish, I would live there!!!
Have a nice week
Hugs,
Yvonne
OK, see, now THIS is why you're a professional! Amazing photos! I am DYING over that heart fence! Guess I have to go to Madison now…(oh darn) We SO enjoyed meeting you and spending time! I hope you're back sooner than later!! :)
♥
These flowers and houses are just so pretty!
Your photos make me miss my time in the south! I'm looking forward to seeing more from your trip to Savannah. Best wishes.
Dear Georgianna, sooooo beautiful images!!! really you can make wonders wherever you go, your eyes only see beauty everywhere and your photographic skills are the best!!!
hugs
Oh my lord G, are you sure this isn't a mythical place? I want to live in the peach colored cottage. Everything is so amazingly beautiful! You captured the glory of Spring and brought back for all of us. Thank you : )
Do not feel bad about not keeping up. That's just the way life is when you are busy!
Oh my goodness, these are stunning! I love your description of the gates and fences. The pinks are beautiful set against the white furniture and house trimmings and fences, and the green of the nature.
wonderful!!!!
Welcome home, It sounds like you had a fabulous time. Your photos are stunning!!! hugs.
What beautiful images you captured! I love every one but especially the first pink house. Yum! It looks so pretty with the white blossoms on the trees. Gorgeous!
Such gorgeous homes and gardens, Georgianna. That pink house is calling to me….do you suppose they'd let me move in?
xo
Claudia
So good to have you back, I missed your posts, they always take me away to another world, these are no exception – so dreamy! Catherine x
Georgianna – thank you for sharing pictures from your trip. It looks so beautiful with all the charming old details and gorgeous flowers. :) It's almost like being there with you! Hope you will share more. Have a great week ahead! xo
Hi G
Welcome back, it's nice to travel but nicer to return home to your own bed.
You got to see some beautiful country and flowers, I look forward to more of your trip.
Judith
so beautiful! thank you for sharing all these amazing photos- it's like a little bit of filed trip!
Oh wow! Stunning photography! I feel as if I was right there, and I can just picture myself sitting on that porch swing drinking iced tea! Ooo fried chicken, now I'm hungry. :-) Glad you had a lovely trip.
Bonjour Georgiana – I'm just delighted to see these beautiful photos – the pink home with the porch is one of the prettiest photos I have ever seen. Dogwood blossoms and wisteria intertwined – just magical!!
Oh my gosh…..so so gorgeous. Amazing shots of all the cities beauty and splendor! That pink house is just too gorgeous!
Your photographs are fabulous, you make the places look so enticing!
I have always wanted to visit the south, but I've never been there yet. Thank you for sharing your amazing photographs with us. How gorgeous! ~Stacy~
Oh how beautiful, the south does look pretty. Someday I hope to visit there. Can't wait to see more pics from your trip!!!
That house is gorgeous… And that picket fence–I have never seen anything more precious.
Your photos are inspirational as always, Georgianna. I've never heard of Madison, Ga, but evidently I need to visit there. Spring was beautiful here in my part of the South, and your pictures make me think I probably missed some great shots around here. Glad you made it home safely! Are things blooming up your way yet?
I'm glad you are back! And it's so pleasant to see that people do enjoy their spring somewhere (unlike us) :(
omg, you must have been in HEAVEN! I would have been! That's one part of the country I've never been. It looks like Spring is definately the time to go!
Welcome back G, looking forward to more pics:)
Thank you so much :)
This post gave me so much inspiration and creative energy. Truly eye poetry!
Have a lovely day and a big hug from Holland,
xx Sas
p.s.
I'm off to the garden now trying to create some new garden scenes like Le Petit Jardin :)
These images are completely amazing and make me a little homesick for my home state! So glad that you had such a nice trip!
Hi Georgianna,
Welcome back! It looks like you had a wonderful trip. Your photographs are stunning as usual. What a beautiful area you visited. Love all the pink. I am now painting my house pink!
All the best,
Ingrid xoxo
Beautiful photos! Thanks for sharing your adventure. I love the south!
Welcome home, G.! These photos are breathtakingly beautiful! I'm so glad you had a wonderful time. xo
Oh the joy of living in a pink house surrounded by the delicate graciousness of the south. Why, fiddley-dee, I think I'm there (in my mind at least *smiling*) Thank you so much for these lovely photo's. I love them all!!
Wow! What beautiful houses! How blessed must you be to be able to live in one of them!
Welcome back! Can't wait to see more.
it looks like you had a great trip with tons of good weather. what a beautiful backdrop you had for your photography…..le petite jardin is so pretty, what a great old building…..
i can't wait to see more of your trip!!
hugs
gorgeous photos!!
wow…wonderful…just amazing…i´m speechless, my dear…this is just so beautiful…and i have the feeling to be there, too…inside theses scences…lovley…dreaming…oh, you are unbelievable…and so fine to have you here back…have a great sunny start here…and i´m looking forward for all your "treasures"…you make me crazy for it…cheers and hugs…i…
No one no one can do what you do with a camera. No one but my friend, G, can bring me south like where we used to live in Alabama and even though this is a different place make me feel that southern Spring. These are breathtaking and it gives such peace in every petal. Thanks dear. Blessings.
All your pictures are beautiful but the one that is making me look again and again is the wooden fence with the heart shaped cutouts! I would love to have such a fence someday! I'm looking forward to your pictures of Savannah, as I am planning a trip there soon. Linda
I am so sorry that I've been out of touch and so super sorry that I missed you while you were down here but I understand that you were really busy. Madison is only 95 miles from us :( But after seeing your gorgeous photos, you've inspired me to visit there so thank you! :) I will admit that I've peeked in at your blog from time to time over the past several weeks but haven't taken the time to write. I feel bad that I haven't replied to your message from January yet. This move has been a little rough on me, I got us unpacked really quickly but I'm still trying to get settled and get back into the groove of things. Georgia is ok but I'm really not happy here. I miss Colorado so much and I have moments every now and then when I find something beautiful in the area to gush over but part of my heart is in Colorado and I think it will stay there until we return someday :( Sorry to vent like that, I just wanted to let you know what's been going on lately. Please keep your posts and photos coming, they're still as inspirational to me as always and it's a special treat for me to sit here and smile at my computer screen while reading one of your posts and viewing your stunning photos! :) I hope all is well, take care!!
A *pink* house !!!! Ok, Anja, breathe. Just breathe…. :)))
Georgianna, your pictures are breathtaking!
Welcome back in blogland – we missed you!
Lovely greetings from stormy, rainy and cold germany!
Anja
Georgianna, your visit to Georgia and the South has such an unbelievably beautiful start, I can hardly wait to see what other beautiful images you capture! Last week I watched the Civil War documentary by Ken Burns, which made me appreciate the difficult times experienced by our country and those heart-wrenching images were crowding my head until I saw your beautiful visions tonight. I love the history and natural beauty combined. Thanks so much for sharing your lovely work with the world!
Mitzi
Oh goodness, what an astonishingly gorgeous part of the world! Thanks for sharing this bit of your trip – I am now plotting ways to get myself down south sometime soon.
I'm sorry I will not move in to your place I will move there to that first house:) Really if you have a house and garden like that you can't be sad or in angry mood EVER. For me that is not even real it is so over the top of beautiful things. Shocking beauty, thank you for showing these wonderful places which I will never see on live.
Henrietta
What a wonderful trip this must have been Georgianna! Thank you for "taking us along" through these beautiful photographs. Spring in the south is so very magnificent, and you have captured it beautifully here.
Welcome home!
Sounds like you had an incredible trip! These photos are so picturesque and beautiful! You had me sighing at every single one! Thanks for the inspiration, it's well needed today, I'm sitting at work and trying to block out the noise of the roadworks outside!xx
oh G! i love the charm of the homes you've captured! they are AMAZING!!
¿De verdad existen estos lugares? ¿No es un sueño? Si lo es no me despierten pues es como estar en el paraíso!!!! Belleza, belleza, belleza infinita!!!!
Abrazos.
I am glad to see you back and I look forward to all the beautiful photos you will share with us. Lots of gorgeousness in your post. The wisteria with the dogwood was just breathtaking. V
Hi Georgianna,
Such gorgeous photos that you have taken on your trip away. I love the pink house and the beautiful gardens. I adore the heart picket fence and the lovely florist shop.
Thanks for sharing.
Happy week
Hugs
Carolyn
This must have been a little bit of heaven on earth for you–so much at every turn to photograph and your pictures draw me in, make me wanting to step right in. I love the softness of the florals. Can't wait to see what comes next.
Welcome back dear Georgianna! Thanks for sharing these wonderful and beautiful pictures there a dream!
have a nice days!
Hugs monica
Ohhh, looks like a flower heaven :) I love the Southern houses, so beautiful!
Every photo is gorgeous! I cannot choose a favorite, each one is an inspiration! Thank you!
Ohhh My, dear Georgianna, what a beauty! The first photo is simply breathtaking!! Wooden houses with lacy trims swallowed in tender, ruffled pink blossoms – what a lush Spring!
And I like the flower shop too…ferns peeking out the window and the color of walls! Thank you for sharing such a treat ;)
Dearest sweet g, welcome back!! I missed you so much too!! These photos are just pure joy and beautiy! I really adore that gorgeous heart-shaped picket fence! Sooo beautiful!
Have a lovely merry happy friday and love to you!
Georgianna! What a treat….isn't it lovely….smiles.(and TGIF!)
Oh my goodness these pictures are awesome! We live in the South and you have captured it so beautifully!
welcome back, I believe that one should never need to apologise for not posting Georgianna. You have had a wonderful trip and have presented us with an absolutely gorgeous post as a result. The white blossom looks so magnificent against the pretty pink house.
I've never visited the southern states, but now I'm in love. Thank you for sharing all these beautiful images with us, g!
~ Zuzu
What a heavenly place! Love that pink house and all those gorgeous flowers – AND the heart in the fence. Looks like a perfect place to "breathe"