cooley gardens

Yesterday we explored the gardens after a warm rain. Reminiscent of English cottage gardens, the plants & blooms spill out here and there, naturally making rooms with hedges and shrubs and had me feeling like I was Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden. Cooley has this unkempt-sprawling feeling that makes it feel all the more secret and all the more stately. I still can't shake the desire to sit under a tree and read something Jane Austen.

Photos taken with an iPhone 4s