Tranquility in a City Without Peace

From November through March , Dumbarton Oaks Gardens in Washington , D.C. is open to the public free of charge.

The gardens are the most tranquil place in a city that does not value peace.

The mansion is an urban mansion on 16 acres of land and is primarily a research institution, owned by Harvard .

The area in Northwest D.C. near Dumbarton Oaks is heavily populated, but the interests of its inhabitants remain much the same—money, food, and gossip.

What a blessing is that there is a retreat from that world, right within the city, where one can sit in the gardens of a rural fantasy, bathed in a pale winter light.