Garden & Gun’s Top Photos of 2023

Stone crab claws and whole fried lane snapper at Key Largo Fisheries.

“Exploring the Hidden Florida Keys”

Chuck Charnichart, one of the best brisket cooks in the Lone Star State.

“Meet the Young Texas Pitmaster Cooking Up a Dynamic Future for Barbecue”

Maverick, a mighty Texas longhorn from Fort Worth.

Cover: The Best of Texas

An inviting Bee’s Knees at Julep in Houston.

“Houston’s Wide Welcome”

A white-tailed deer at the East Foundation’s El Sauz Ranch.

“Conservation’s New Frontier in South Texas”

Wildlife scientist Abe Woodard with Lexi.

“Conservation’s New Frontier in South Texas”

James Powell, the East Foundation’s director of communications, quail hunting at San Antonio Viejo Ranch.

“Conservation’s New Frontier in South Texas”

A weathered saddle at the East Foundation’s San Antonio Viejo Ranch, in Hebbronville, Texas.

“Conservation’s New Frontier in South Texas”

Jason Isbell, photographed at the Mockingbird Theater in Franklin, Tennessee.

Cover: Southern Rock Revival

The Long Hello cocktail.

“A Sparkling Cocktail That’s Worth the Squeeze”

Larkin Poe sisters Rebecca (left) and Megan Lovell, with her signature slide guitar, photographed outside of Nashville.

“The New Guitar Greats”

Presenting the South’s hottest guitar heroes.

“The New Guitar Greats”

Carl “Buffalo” Nichols tunes up in his studio.

“The New Guitar Greats”

A fishing boat in the waters off Soufriere, Dominica.

Cover: Great Southern Escapes

“Pump” Laville opens a coconut to serve guests at his farm deep in the jungle of Dominica.

“On Dominica, the Ultimate Caribbean Castaway Experience”

A half rack of ribs with sides at Captain Stan’s Smokehouse in Woodbine, Georgia.

“A Motorcycle Cruise Up US 17, the Coastal Highway”

Peering through a gate linking two churchyards at St. Philip’s cemetery in Charleston.

“A Guide to a Charleston Garden Walk”

Inside the Birmingham loft and studio of artist William Rushton.

“A Birmingham Painter’s Light-Filled Perch”

Young campers raft Idaho’s Snake River as part of the On River Time program.

“Take Me to the River”

Hauling in a brown trout.

“Take Me to the River”

ABC News journalist and Georgia native Deborah Roberts.

“Deborah Roberts Is Head of the Class”

Lucinda Williams with her custom-made electric guitar.

“The Epic Return of Lucinda Williams”

Marianne Eaves amid barrels of aging Forbidden bourbon.

“Marianne Eaves’s Whiskey Dreams”

Stan Mieloch, of Captain Stan’s Smokehouse in Woodbine, Georgia, with a half rack of ribs.

“A Motorcycle Cruise Up US 17, the Coastal Highway”

Guide Winston Kingman casts near the mouth of Margot Creek in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.

“A Fly Fisherman’s Alaskan Adventure”

Chef Rob McDaniel’s warm banana pudding.

“Banana Pudding’s Heated Debate”

A portion of Travis Milton’s 450-pair Air Jordan collection, displayed on a barn at Nicewonder Farm & Vineyards in Bristol, Virginia.

“A Sneakerhead in the Kitchen: 450 Air Jordans and Counting”

A stack of benne seed pancakes from Vern’s in Charleston.

“Cover: The Entertaining Special”

Game-day wings slathered in a Cheerwine-based barbecue sauce.

“Grilled Cheerwine Chicken Wings”

Cheetie Kumar’s refreshing summer cocktail.

“Watermelon-Cucumber Cooler”

Dennis Quaid with Peaches, his English bulldog.

“Dennis Quaid’s Gospel Truth”

Peaches and Quaid lounge by the pool.

“Dennis Quaid’s Gospel Truth”

Farmer-florist Dee Hall in her Norfolk, Virginia, garden.

“Virginia in Bloom”

Jennie L. Stephens, photographed in the historic Cherry Hill Classroom in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.

“Champions of Conservation 2023”

The Utopian Seed Project’s Chris Smith.

“Champions of Conservation 2023”

Sid, an English springer spaniel, ready for action in southern England.

Cover: The Ultimate International Sporting Trips

A Belizean rum sour.

“Rum from the Rainforest”

A peek into the pantry of Hillery Head’s home on Lake Martin, Alabama.

“An Inviting Alabama Lake House Tells a Family Story”

James Knight with his Irish wolfhounds at Ireland’s Ashford Castle.

“Twelve International Sporting Lodges”

A successful day at Martha quail plantation in Tallahassee.

“Baptism By Quail”

Biologist Mike Chamberlain holds a wild turkey feather.

“Champions of Conservation 2023”

A falcon’s-eye view of the main house on Glanusk Estate in South Wales.

“Opulence on the Usk”

Boat restorer Win Turner sails on Mobile Bay along the Fairhope, Alabama, shoreline.

“Fairhope, Alabama, Has Stories to Tell”

A 1954 GMC pickup in Essex County, Virginia.

Cover: Home for the Holidays

Foraged boxwood and Russian olive garlands, entwined with scarlet ribbon, dried pepperberry, and preserved orange, grapefruit, and lime slices, deck the west parlor’s mantel.

“Mary Spotswood Underwood’s Foraged Christmas”

Shed antlers and foraged greenery decorate a pop-up bar on the back of Mr. Anderson, a restored 1954 GMC pickup.

“Mary Spotswood Underwood’s Foraged Christmas”

Jumbo lump crab mayonnaise, topped with trout roe, at Marcel in Atlanta.

“John T. Edge Time Travels at an Atlanta Steakhouse”

Sarah Paulson kicking up her Larroudé heels in West Hollywood, in a Prada sweater and skirt.

“The Shape-Shifting Sarah Paulson”

Waves crash on the seawall at Rincón’s Tres Sirenas Beach Inn in Puerto Rico.

“Puerto Rico’s West Coast Flavor”

A lively nighttime streetscape in Old San Juan.

“Puerto Rico’s West Coast Flavor”