Rocky Mountain Adventures
July 25, 2011
For more than 125 years, people have traveled from all over the world to witness the incomparable grandeur of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Back in 1885, when Banff became Canada’s first National Park, the only way to visit was aboard the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Today, while Banff and nearby Lake Louise—now both UNESCO World Heritage sites—are served seasonally by the Rocky Mountaineer railway, they’re easily accessible by car as year-round destinations for some of the most spectacular scenery and exhilarating outdoor activities imaginable. Read more…
Malibu Magnificence
July 20, 2011
When architect Lewin Wertheimer began building the East Coast–inspired, shingle-style property in Malibu that he’d spent a couple of years designing for a client, he never anticipated what would happen next. “We went through the entire design phase and actually started construction on the property,” says Wertheimer, “and then the couple decided to stop construction and put the property and partially finished house up for sale.” Read more…
A Fresh Perspective
July 20, 2011
It all began with a quest for more land. As Carolyn Duryea Smith, founder and partner of Hourglass Wine Company, in St. Helena, California, explains, “The wine we created from the original four-acre Hourglass Vineyard, which my husband’s family purchased in 1976, became very successful, but it limited us in how much wine we could make.” So, she and her husband, Jeff, searched for another vineyard where they could develop a second estate wine. Read more…
Garden Music – An Ecosystem Pond
July 6, 2011
“If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water,” American philosopher and natural science writer Loren Eiseley once observed. Certainly anyone who’s sat on a bench by a garden pond has experienced that magic firsthand. The moments we spend quietly watching the wind blowing tree limbs or waves rippling on a pond are precious few—and they provide us with a reflective time to relax and enjoy all a natural landscape has to offer. Read more…
