Spring Southern travel inspiration

See the little tree frogs? 

Last week we traveled south to Savannah, GA for a few days and on to Orlando, Florida. We spent some time at Disney with our family, the gardens there were inspiring and so was Savannah! Spring has already offered lots of art inspiration!  Savannah and Orlando offered up some incredibly beautiful flowers, old and new architecture and fun shops to inspire my creativity.  A road trip with lots of things to fill ones senses can be an enormous creativity booster.  Savannah always seems to fill my sense of smell with good and magical scents that invoke lots of good memories.  Some of my favorite scents from Southern travels are caramel apples, pralines and floral scents.  Speaking of floral scents, the wisteria as we depart North on Interstate 16 always fills the car ventilation with a strong aroma.  I made a mental note on past trips where these locations are along our route.  As we began to travel home with my camera close in hand I offered with great authority to assist with the driving.  Usually my husband resists my efforts to help and I’m the one in the passenger seat sleeping like a baby!  This trip was different; my husband was obviously heavy eyed and had a full tummy so he was surprisingly eager for me to drive.  It wasn’t long after we switched drivers that I noticed the wisteria that I had been watching for.  I brought the car to a screeching halt, grabbed my camera and announced that I had to run grab some pictures…”WISTERA!”  I shouted, like I had found a lost treasure!  He opened one eye smiled and reverted back to his near comatose state.  I am fairly certain that I was out beside the Interstate over 20 minutes maybe 30 minutes, who knows, I lost track and he was sleeping! But I got some pretty photographs of wisteria.  And it wasn’t until I began to write this blog and review my pictures that I noticed the tree frogs that were on the trunk of a tree in one of my pictures.  I was bummed to have missed seeing them and wondered what else I had missed when I was so focused on getting my pictures of the wisteria.