|| Mid summer afternoon in Maymont

I haven't been to this place for at least five years ... wanted to come back two years ago, but was in a melancholy mood and didn't come after all.

Today we came here from the Hampton entrance, the parking lots were limited but we were able to find a place. The Italian garden is the closest, and there are people preparing for a white wedding. We also went back to the Japanese garden, which has a genuine understated beauty of some sort with only subtle asian flavors here and there. The trees are all old but healthy and giant. I still remember an old neighbor when lived my opposite door when I was in the Gables. A weekend afternoon, with a book and a cool drink by the river in Maymont, is the best summer, that's probably true. But the heat was a bit overwhelming today.