Art Collection and Gardens

Straight and Narrow
As I've intimated many times in these Travelogues, I'm a big fan of small water. I like rain chains.  I prefer narrow scuppers to wide sheet falls.  I like waterfalls with flows the diameter of my thumb rather than the span of a grand, old tree.  What I like most of all these days are described as rills or runnels - little channels that artfully
One for the Ages
I recently enjoyed my umpteenth visit to the Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens.  It's an amazing estate in the city of San Marino, Calif., a well-heeled enclave near Pasadena, and was established by Henry Huntington, nephew and heir to transcontinental-railroad magnate Collis Huntington.  This is a place that shows you what a serious fortune could buy in the early years of the 20th Century.I like the library and appreciate the art collection, but the reason