In this issue, we celebrate the beauties of Spring through a mother-daughter’s love of flowers and nature at Stone Hollow Farmstead in rural Alabama and the sense of community a shared love of art brings to a historic, art-filled home in Selma, Alabama. We see another mother-daughter team from Georgia who have taken nature’s treasures and turned them into valuable and treasured jewelry. And a Texas pastry chef talks about taking early lessons from her grandmother’s kitchen and turning them into incredible confections for weddings and other special occasions. It’s the season for wedding planning and joyous unions, prompting us to talk to an Atlanta florist about the special meaning of the flowers in a bride’s glorious bouquet. As the Spring brings movement from dormancy, we’re also seeing travelers looking for new destinations to explore and share ideas for chasing the waterfalls of North Carolina or the big billfish of the Florida Keys. And hunters who have been waiting for the buds of Spring to signal the opening of turkey season, a South Carolina hunter with multiple Grand Slams to his credit shares his insight into taking the big five gobblers with a bow. This season brings something else … the celebration of Easter with bunnies and egg hunts and candy galore, but more importantly the reassurance of the resurrection of Jesus and an empty tomb. We feature the beauties of the Spring and one family’s celebration of Christian and Greek Orthodox Easter. We hope you’ll journey with us through these Southern stories of tradition and fresh ideas where the best of old and new meet and blossom with the dogwoods and daffodils in a season of joyous renewal.
