To: TokyoMex who wrote (3345 ) 3/30/1998 7:43:00 PM From: Kimberly Lee Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 34592
Joe, Leaving campus for spring break, I just wish to thank you for your selfless tutelage, from keen market observations, astute stock picks, prolific writings and your sharing of philosophical musings on life.... Going to visit a few enchanted places in Europe: Villa Gallici in Aix-en-Provence, a subdued garden, not too manicured, suffused in a rich palette of colors; Chiswick House garden in West London, actor Huge Grant's favorite, Frenchified, Latinate and tamed; Luxembourg garden in Paris, fantasizing about pushing my future baby in an old-fashioned pram through the foliage; Musee D'Orsay, the Parisian sanctuary for Impressionism and Post-Impressionism paintings that comes as close to museum perfect as humanly possible. And of course I would never dream of skipping the Keukenhof Garden! Each spring, the colossal, extraordinary park attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors, who come to witness a dazzling spectacle: 3 million flowering tulips, plus millions of daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths and other plants, all in full bloom, like a gargantuan paint-by-number tableau laid in the grass to dry. Every garden in the world is evidence of the hand of man, but Keukenhof's 70 acres are simply and unabashedly devoted to that hand, to those undulating borders of crimson tulips, circles of yellow tulips, blocks of mauve hyacinths flowering like madness among groves of orange crown imperials, continents of crocuses and shocking-blue waves of hyacinths. Add to all that flowering shrubs, pale-green sunlight filters through a spring canopy of enormous birch tress, modern sculptures, ponds filled with swans and waterfowls, and a picture-perfect windmill. hope I am not too carried away with my florid prose, but I think it's time to adorn the Cafe with some aesthetic beauty and pleasing colors to thank our gracious host. Will stop by the Connaught to have tea with mom and be back in a week. Needless to say, I am much looking forward to participating in the new website. Kimmie