Stowe Landscape Garden, Buckinghamshire, England

I’ve always been in love with gardens. I grew up in what were called garden apartments, in a complex called Glen Oaks, in the area of Queens known as Kew Gardens. But although there were oaks, there were no glens and no gardens to be seen. I loved trees, plants, and flowers from an early…

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Historic Lamb House, Home of Henry James, in Rye, East Sussex

Many artists and writers find inspiration in landscape or in the built environments of cities and towns. What attracts a writer to a given location? A drawing of a house is what drew author Henry James  (1843-1916), an American who lived in Britain, to the the historic seaport town of Rye, in East Sussex, England. Enchanted…

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