This is a little paradise. Truly. Consider what follows a typical day during my visit: in the morning, a brief trip outside to pick tangerines and oranges for juice, and then breakfast and coffee out on the porch, bathing in the scent of jasmine and communing with hummingbirds; then, with a handful of kumquats in my pocket, a walk through the neighborhood under a purple canopy of jacarandas to the Huntington, with its splendor of gardens and artwork; and in the evening, with a fresh lemon off the tree for salad dressing, dinner on the veranda and a glass of wine while contemplating the orchard's beauty in the fading light.