Jardin Botanique Montreal

This past weekend we visited the Jardin Botanique Montreal. Because there was plenty of beauty hiding beyond the unique and colorful flowers, I broke the trip into two parts. To highlight some aspects of the garden not requiring color the

An Olmsted Masterpiece: The Biltmore Estate

In the 1890′s, George Washington Vanderbilt built the largest house in America, and who better to devise the grounds than Frederick Law Olmsted.  Only the finest were allowed to grace this extravagant vacation mansion, and so it was that Olmsted,