• Giverny was Claude Monet's home during the last decades of his life

• Entering Monet's garden and home

• Monet's garden with a peek at Monet's home in the background

• Monet's garden and home

• Monet's garden and home

• A view from Monet's garden of the building housing his second studio at Giverny

• Our tour group inside Monet's second studio

• The lady in the grey pantsuit, a decendant of Claude Monet, was our hostess. The two people on the left are François Marot, the editor of the French edition of National Geographic and one of our expert lecturers, and Catherine Pohu, one of our French National Superguides.

• Inside Monet's second studio

• Judy & Bill Cottle, Errol & Ruth Ann Ger

• Inside Monet's second studio

• Marilyn Vinson, our hostess, Kathryn, Pat Speier, Judy Cottle

• Monet's garden and home

• Kathryn and Doug in front of Monet's home in Giverny

• Kathryn and Doug in front of Monet's home in Giverny

• Clematis

• Clematis

• Foxglove

• Poppies

• Monet's garden

• Monet's garden

• Monet's garden

• Monet's garden

• Monet's Lily Pond

• Monet's Lily Pond

• Monet's Lily Pond

• Claude Monet, Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies - 1899. This painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

• Claude Monet, Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies - 1899

• Monet's Lily Pond

• Monet's Lily Pond

• Detail of Monet's Water Lilies in L'Orangerie in Paris

• Monet's Water Lilies, one panel of several in L'Orangerie in Paris

• Monet's Lily Pond

• Monet's Lily Pond

• Monet's Lily Pond

• Monet's Lily Pond

• Monet's Lily Pond

• Monet's Lily Pond

• Bridge in Monet's Lily Pond

• Doug photographing Monet's Lily Pond