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The scene is set for dreaming. Like dewdrops caught in a silken net, thousands of crystal droplets shimmer in the slightest breeze above a secluded parterre in Dumbarton Oaks. For the last year, this unexpected confection of light and space has enchanted visitors to the historic garden at the north end of Georgetown. […] Leave your worries behind, all ye who enter here. One of my early favorite books was “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Like many a soft-hearted young girl, I was moved by the story of a hidden garden in which a lonely girl and a crippled boy find inspiration and joy. I […] Peach Chairs Aaah. Summer’s end. Time for that final dip in the pool, walk on the beach, drink on the deck. Bittersweet, perhaps, but there’s something pleasurable about reaching the end of the row, the turn in the road, the fresh new page. Labor Day is a freestyle holiday, relatively new as holidays […] Mauve Madness ’Tis the season to be mauve at Seattle’s Green Lake. Tree nuts flock to Green Lake all year round to marvel at the towering Sequoias, noble Elms and whispering Cottonwoods. In spring the cherry trees gnarled with age billow with blooms of palest pink and white. In autumn golden Plane trees […] You don't need to be royalty to enjoy this lawn. What does your front lawn say about you? Stay out, or come on in? In the Big Picture, the National Mall serves as our national red carpet, our welcome mat to the world. It’s where we gather as a nation to air our […] The original woodblock by Deborah Harris of Fergus the Green Man. For those of us who enjoy spending a large portion of our lives reading fiction, the borderline between the world of the imagination and the so-called real world is sketched in erasable ink. We whose literary passports bear the stamps of dozens […] A little touch of heaven borders the sidewalk in Ravenna. What’s brown, fried, and crackles when you step on it? If you answered the grass next to the sidewalk, then you might be the not-so-proud possessor of a hellstrip. That arid strip of exposed soil between the sidewalk and the street can be […] Come Into The Garden The aptly named Fragrant Cloud. The local palette. The rhodi treehouse Sound sunset Good to the last drop. […] The splashing water of thirteen cascading pools helps relieve D.C.'s summer heat. Many visitors to Washington, D.C., never get beyond the nexus of grandeur and gee whiz spectacle concentrated around the Capitol and the National Mall, but for those who venture past the gentrified corridors of power, the city has its share of […] Bougainvillaea trained to tree-shape exemplifies the garden's living art. A garden is performance art of the most ephemeral and transcendent kind. Blooms come and go. The aspect of the landscape alters with every passing cloud, every sudden shower. So for the travelers like me who go out of their way to visit gardens, […] |
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