Mondays are for dreaming: An enchanted garden

Today begins a week of daytrip posts and I’m dreaming of a great daytrip adventure this morning – a lovely spring day in the gardens at Winterthur in Wilmington, Delaware. This is the former estate of Henry Francis du Pont, collector extraordinaire. The house contains one of the biggest assemblages of American decorative arts in the world (they currently have over 85,000 objects). And the gardens are considered by many people to be the best example of a naturalistic garden in the United States

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