After all, theres no place like it.

Below, three Southerners share what theyll always love and remember about their first homes.

The Seasons

My first home surprised and delighted me at every season, Smrekar says.

Dorothy Shain’s Greenville, SC, bungalow with green front door and front porch and flowers along sidewalk

Credit:James Ransom

I will always remember the joy of discovering what bloomed in my yard the first spring I lived there.

It was the warm feeling of something so old supporting something so new and young.