Can't wait to get my hands on the September Elle Decor

Can you blame me? Just look at the hotness above. I've checked my mailbox once (ok, twice) already today.

{for a few more sneak peeks take a looksie here}

"Southern Exposures"

I grew up in the South and have lived here virtually my entire life. Although this is not my birth place, in essence it is my home, the only place I know. So these images of great southern homes truly resonate with me, they are everything I associate with the South; whether "grand or humble, antebellum or modern," they are "all bound by land, heat, and history." Especially, heat, I can personally vouch for that one!

Although I have never visited any of these particular specimens, chronicled in the above photographs, I have seen them all through my car window driving through small towns whose names I don't remember, on the way to family vacations. As a child, and now with my own children, these homes are stored away in my memory bank, at once so foreign, and yet so familiar at the same time.

{all images and bits of text via the wonderfully written, beautifully photographed Garden and Gun}