A sculpture of Hermes/Mercury in the Outer Peristyle garden. Another extravagant place from California... A sister museum to the Getty C...

More Californian, hazy blue skies... Another amazing place I visited the previous week was the Getty Center , an enormous art center sit...

Hollywood, California: Philip Ilsley estate, Hepatica-leaf pool. While doing research for an article about free-form pools, I found this am...

Yucca brevifolias , like rambling, shaggy sculptures in one of the Plant Communities areas at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. Winter ...

A flowing connection between the indoor and outdoor areas. Sitting here, looking at my garden through the pouring rain, I remembered that I...

Filoli house in Woodside, California; the columned main entry is covered in Wisteria and surrounded by Magnolias and Japanese maples. K...

I love art and sciences, but sometimes I feel a bit wary about museums, these human-built environments made for people to entertain (...