This is Nice

Southerners tend to live in one place, where they can see whole lives unfold around them. It gives them a natural sense of the narrative, of the dramatic content of life.

-- Eudora Welty

From Under Live Oaks: The Last Great Houses of the Old South (Caroline Seebohm and Peter Woloszynski, Clarkson Potter Publishers, New York, 2002)

The Elms, Natchez, Mississippi

 Photo from Under Live Oaks, p. 125.