Holidailies 27

This icy lady sits outside The Elms, a mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. We visited on Monday and toured the three mansions that are decorated for Christmas right now (The Breakers, The Elms, and Marble House). A new blanket of snow was deposited on Sunday night -- for our picture-taking purposes, no doubt -- yet the roads were pretty clear and easy to navigate. As Marty said, "No problem for the Subaru."

Here are a few more pictures from Newport; click on them to see larger versions.

1. The gates of The Breakers, Newport's most lavish (and famous) mansion.
2. The back door of The Breakers.
3. Winter wonderland, 1.
4. Winter wonderland, 2.
5. Winter wonderland, 3.
6. The Elms, my favorite of the three mansions we visited.
7. A snow-covered cherub, riding a sphinx.
8. Marble House, a house made completely of marble -- inside and out.
9. A beautiful London Plane Tree outside Marble House.