Friday, December 9

The Holiday 2011 Monticello catalog from the Thomas Jefferson Foundation is especially beautiful this year as they have photographed Mr. Jefferson’s home in the snow, framed by an expansive Virginia blue sky and tree branches having long since shed their leaves.  The great house sits majestically with its red brick and white columns as if on a fluffy powdered blanket.

My wife and I visited during late October one year when the trees were bursting with yellow, orange and red and the house seemed engulfed by its expansive green lawn.