Sarah P. Duke Gardens
The Duke Gardens in Durham, N.C., consist of 55 acres of landscaped and wooded areas. They are free to enter, though cheap parking must be paid. There were a couple of areas of absolute “wow” …
Category: Nature
Ladew Topiary Gardens
I lured Doug into a garden tour by explaining that this wasn’t your regular garden, it was a topiary garden, and thus entirely different. Though it turned out there were way more flowers than topiary, …
Scenes from Western Massachusetts
We hopped back and forth between N.Y. and Mass. as we headed north, then swung back through Mass. as we headed south from Vermont. First up was the Berkshire Botanical Garden, which I was honestly …
Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory
The Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory in South Deerfield, Mass., has thousands of butterflies and moths inside their 8,000 square foot conservatory. Sincee butterflies and moths like plants and flowers, there’s lots of that to see, …
Architecture / Art / Flowers / Museums
The Shelburne Museum, Part 3
This is our third and last post on the Shelburne Museum (see Part 1 and Part 2). The parents of the Museum’s founder were collectors of French Impressionist masterpieces. It is amusing to think how …
The Shelburne Museum, Part 1
The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt., almost defies description. It is certainly not what you’d expect in the traditional sense of a “museum.” Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960) was a pioneering collector of American folk art. …
Dog Chapel, Dog Mountain, and the Stephen Huneck Gallery
Stephen Huneck was a self-taught American artist known for wood carving, furniture making, painting, and writing children’s books. Over his lifetime, he wrote 10 books inspired by his black Lab, Sally, all illustrated with his …
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
Part of taking in the history of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., meant going to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Although you can’t tell it from the name, the museum is focused on …
Untermyer Park and Gardens
The Untermyer Park and Gardens in Yonkers, N.Y., are the 43-acre remnant of Samuel Untermyer’s original 150-acre estate, “Greystone”. It is situated on steep land rising from the Hudson River, and as such has glorious …
Leonard J. Buck Garden
The Leonard J. Buck Garden in Far Hills, N.J. came on my radar as “one of the premier rock gardens in the Eastern United States”, and after our research for Japan Day back in 2020, …