It was beautiful. For those of you who don't know, the Huntington Library is not just a library, it consists of many gardens and has art collections/museums in it too. The admission for adults is usually $20, but we reserved our free day tickets (free days are the first thursday of every month) a month before and entered for free.
We had heard a lot about the Huntington, and saw that it had been spoken highly of all over the internet, and it didn't fail to please us.
The entire place was so big, it was hard to see everything in the couple hours that we had before closing. There were so many different gardens, including Japanese Gardens, Desert Gardens, Chinese Gardens, Australian Gardens, and so much more. They were all very beautiful and lush with plant life; it probably needed an immense amount of upkeep for all of the plants to survive.
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| The Japanese Garden |
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| The Desert Garden |
Unfortunately we didn't get to see everything since closing time was very soon.
It was very hot out yesterday, and since there was so much ground to cover, we were sweating and our feet were hurting by the time we finished looking through 3 or 4 gardens.
Since it was near closing time, we decided that we would leave the rest of the gardens for another trip in the future (hopefully?) and visit the art museums.
I love looking at art, and all the furniture was very interesting. It was somewhat like a mini version of the Getty. The most famous painting that is kept here is 'The Blue Boy' by Thomas Gainsborough.
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| The Sculptures on the North Vista Lawn. There was a row of sculptures going down the grass lane and it was just so beautiful. |
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