CARAMOOR Westchester's smaller, more genteel answer to Tanglewood offers high-calibre concerts on the grounds of a verdant country estate.
Dawn consistently carried the pungent aroma of cocoa trees, because I was staying on a verdant cocoa estate — and sleeping in a cocoa pod.
You'll see it's like a verdant industrial estate: brutalist architecture and conspicuous piping amid the natural beauty of the South Downs.
"Once a verdant colonial estate, and later developed as the embodiment of refined living, it is today also dotted with foreign diplomatic missions and consulates," the authors write, tracing Beekman Place's evolution early in the 20th century from an industrial district into one of the city's most exclusive and charming sanctuaries.
Now, it is a verdant land dotted with horse farms, expansive estates and well-known residents, including Martha Stewart, Ralph Lauren and George Soros.
With Russians eyeing Abkhazia's verdant beachfront real estate and even the Russian Orthodox Church looking to expand its influence, some Abkhaz have begun to wonder how much longer their autonomy will last.
(Eichler) CARAMOOR (Tomorrow, Sunday, Thursday) Sixty years ago, Walter and Lucie Rosen founded this summer festival on the verdant grounds of their estate in northern Westchester County, and tomorrow night, Caramoor will celebrate the opening of its anniversary season with its first performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Opening nights at this festival, presented each summer on the verdant grounds of an elegant estate, generally include a private dinner and party for benefactors held in an exclusive tented space adjacent to the Venetian Theater, where most concerts are staged.
Today Stowlawn is green and pleasant, an estate of whitewashed houses, verdant verges and bucolic trees.
In the labyrinth of paths that fret the verdant tract of incalculably expensive real estate, which is sacred to Buddhists, Shintoists, Christians, and fashion photographers, I kept running into an old man and his two whippets, all three in Hermès coats.
