Artistic Miniatures
A vacation back to childhood. That’s how my wife Mary and I feel each October when we visit the Florence Griswold Museum’s We Faerie Village in Old Lyme, Connecticut. We are among thousands who make the annual pilgrimage to the impressionist art mecca’s beautiful riverside grounds where we wander in wonder among gardens, on the broad lawn, and beneath trees to see a display of over two dozen expertly designed and built small scale structures whose fine detail and whimsical vision always leaves us gobsmacked. And nature is in conspiracy with art as breezes stir the constructions and sun and clouds play with shadow and light.