It's a landmark little changed since the 19th century, with oaks and sycamores shading a deep green lawn, a perfect starting point for sightseeing and museum hopping on walkable streets where ivy and the workaday city intertwine.
We drove through a neighborhood of gracious houses with deep lawns, where the for-sale signs were from Sotheby's, and parked by a steep cliff.
It was exactly as I had hoped: tin-roofed bungalows with names like Waverley and Rosedene sitting in deep lawns fringed with scarlet canna lilies and pots of marigolds.
His quip endures because so much of historic Saratoga is still intact: along Union Avenue, with its grand Victorian houses and their wraparound porches fronting deep lawns, and on Broadway, the town's well-preserved main street that still evokes a late 19th century spa resort.
He talks to an ecologist who has discovered that humans everywhere seem to have a deep love of grass lawns, and provides us with a glimpse of the mythical Inca birdmen who were once said to inhabit the rainforests of Peru.
The skies become a deep, leaden gray, and the Weeksville Center lawn a brilliant ivory.
If one accepts the idea that lawns are, in a deep sense, unethical, how does one fill the front yard?
Our last stop is Uga Bay resort, run by the same group as Jungle Beach and with a deep arch framing a vista of lawns, infinity pool and ocean.
Don't over fertilize your lawn if you are looking for a deep green color.
Nonetheless, there is relief, as of a deep breath, when we stand back to survey the candlelit procession that unfolds in shadow, down steps and along dusky lawns, to mark the presumed passing of Hero.
