When I was 11, my father and I would visit Bernie Wolfson and Mary Collins Jones at Acnacharry, the home in the above photo, nearly every weekend. My father was a business associate of both. Bernie built custom homes in the DC area, and Mary was a highly regarded interior decorator. Mary's adult son Patrick made the mistake of permitting me to drive a 1967 Econoline van on the property. During one such occasion, I accidentally drove the van through the lovely boxwood hedge pictured above. Mary began referring to me as her "little tree surgeon." Since then the property has been subdivided, the driveway, as pictured above, reconfigured, and the sharp turn where I had my accident no longer exists.

Many writers are poor spellers--no exception here. The correct spelling of the home is "Achnacarry." It is so named because the estate was established by descendants of the Cameron clan, whose ancestral home was Achnacarry castle, of the Lochaber region of Scotland.