The Norfolk Botanical Gardens is the home of the first six of the presidential heads which were chronicled in my web documenary, Big Heads in Buena Vista. They are, left to right, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover , Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy , Martin Van Buren, and Thomas Jefferson . I can't wait until the movie comes out. Sure, these folks are trying to hype themselves like the first Blair Witch Project movie did, but they're taking themselves a whole lot less seriously. The Washington Post has a nice article on tea and memories in the Style section today.
Tea always tastes better in fine china.
I'll drink to that. That's way too long to be away from such a beautiful place. If only I had some way to get there, and someone to go with. I recall the windless sunny day when I last was there. The surface of the dark water became a mirror such that it was nearly impossible to tell where reality ended and the reflection of it began.