Urban Gardens

10/06/2026

Bye Albuquerque.

09/17/2026

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08/15/2026

01/09/2026

First King Cake of the 2026 Mardi Gras season!

05/15/2025

04/18/2025

When my husband and I were searching for a special Paris restaurant to celebrate my birthday and our recent marriage, I reached out to food journalist and author Wendy Lyn of for a recommendation. I’d just purchased her “little black book of where she sends friends to eat, drink, and explore in Paris,” Rainy Day Paris,” that chick full of her faves, but Wendy narrowed it down to one: .restaurant
Brothers Julien and Nicolas Durand, owner chefs, along with Julia Durand up front, serve innovative modern French dishes in a laid back setting that was the perfect choice for our romantic celebratory evening.

My starter was an artistic blend of textures: freshly shelled delicate and thinly sliced crab served with artichokes beside a mound of slightly crunchy dashi shavings, and bits of katsuobuchi.

My main course, a pousette—a young ckicken—was plated with white asparagus and anchovies. Sixth generation chicken farmer Pascal Cosnet raises the unusually tender birds on his farm, Cour d’Armoise near Le Mans. He feeds his free range chickens on grains produced on the farm, fortified with essential oils and more than 25 wild plants from his natural, protected site.

For dessert, we forced ourselves to share a soft creme caramel topped with crunchy Tonka beans and caramelized almonds. The perfect culmination of a perfect Parisian evening.

03/07/2025

👑 Did you know you can stay at this gorgeous palazzo on the Grand Canal? Scroll to the bottom of the post for information on how to channel your inner royalty. 🇮🇹

Step back centuries into the Palazzo Capello Malipiero Barnabò, the Countess Anna Barnabò's sumptuous antique-filled palace and gardens.

03/01/2025

An innovative way to green public spaces and generate clean energy: Floating gardens with solar panels on the roofs above public parking. This is great. What do you think?

In Japan, they have begun installing floating gardens on public parking lots' roofs, turning these areas into green spaces. These gardens beautify the urban setting and provide crucial habitats for bees and other pollinators, essential for biodiversity. 🌱🍂

This green initiative seeks to mitigate the effects of concrete in cities, offer a wildlife refuge, and improve air quality. Parking lot gardens represent a step towards urban sustainability, highlighting the importance of nature in urban spaces.

Photo source: Media Group

01/21/2025

First time in 100 years. All of 😏New Orleans shut down for three days. Nonetheless, friends visiting from California still had a wonderful time. We did these things before, during, and after the snow:

➡️ Vistied the The National WWII Museum
➡️ Enjoyed beignets at Café Du Monde in the French Quarter and also in New Orleans City Park
➡️ Strolled through the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
➡️ Dined at la petite grocery and Pascal's Manale Restaurant
➡️ Shopped at the cool stores on Magazine Street
➡️ Heard great music at Chickie WAH WAH
➡️ Toured the Garden District's stately mansions and famous cemeteries. You can take this guided tour: https://fave.co/3FljxrT

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