Perched on a hill, the spider web of streets is a painterly collage of hewed stone and iron, timber and masonry, twisted tree stumps and radiant flowers.
Peak bloom is expected to coincide with the explosion of 14,000 bulbs — daffodils, tulips and other radiant flowers planted across the property, says Dan Scott, AHS's associate director for horticulture and River Farm.
Morris Graves, an artist whose paintings of wounded birds and supernaturally radiant flowers combined the spirit of American Transcendentalism with Asian philosophy, and whose reclusive efforts to avoid what he called "the machine-age noise of America" were the stuff of legend, died on Saturday at his home in Loleta, Calif.
Instead of the suburban vistas, there are deep dells, overhanging trees, shaded walks, radiant flowers and glowing colours.
Kaguya enters the world more bewilderingly than most: She's discovered nestled within a radiant bamboo flower by a woodsman, who raises her with his wife.
He'd always wanted a Harley, ever since he'd seen Easy Rider on TV as a kid, and Sandman had stoked him on the idea during their late-night fantasy excursions, a whole vista opening up in the shadows, blooming like a radiant perfect flower, the vision so intense he could feel the wind in his hair and see the sun spread like liquid gold across the road in front of him.
She stands there, in the breeze, looking as radiant as a flower that is about to break someone's heart.
As we went back into the dining room I saw, as though I had never seen them before, the bowl of delphiniums on the table; their intense colour, vivid, ethereal, seemed too radiant for earthly flowers.
Nevertheless, there is a luxurious sensuality to these pictures, which also include still lifes of tropical fruits and flowers and radiant interiors.
As for the settlers, you've got your scrappy weeds, like the ailanthus; your radiant beauties, like the flowering cherries; your no-bid-contract beneficiaries, like the London planes; and the oft-maligned but eventually embraced foreigners, whose stinky berries actually taste great when roasted or lightly batter-fried, such as the ginkgos.
