LuXurious Gardens

For one more day we're going to veer slightly off the theme for this month, New York City food. I hope you'll excuse the liberties with the letter "X" and stop and smell the flowers at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. Our reunion group was blessed with perfect spring weather and some of the most beautiful flowers I've ever seen. It was a glorious visit and I wanted to share it with all of Buttercupland. If you have an interest in horticulture, please explore the link.

The tulips were planted by color and I especially liked the pink ones. 

We spent a lot of our visit in the greenhouses...

This was one of my favorite sights in the greenhouses. 

 Glorious weekend! So grateful for the weather -- sunny and just warm enough -- and the sights we saw. Another highlight was the exhibit of "Downton Abbey" costumes at Winterthur. I will be doing a post about that later this week. I'm also grateful for my classmates that put every detail together and did a wonderful job. But I'm eXpecially grateful for the opportunity for the friendship of the weekend. There were classmates I hadn't seen since graduation -- 1972 -- and those years just slipped away. The weekend went by too quickly and it's all over except for the pictures, the memories and the friendships. Thank you doesn't begin to express my feelings.

I'm so glad I could share the beauty of Longwood Gardens. Tomorrow we're back in New York for a sweet treat. I'm back to errands, a program on exercise and real life today. It's a pretty spring day in New York and real life is a pretty nice place to be.

As always thanks for visiting and take good care.