The Z's at Giverny, Monet's Garden and House. Monet lived almost exclusively at Giverny for the last 30 years of his life and had created the most amazing garden. Although it has been far too cold this year for us to experience the colors of the garden today, we were able to sense the quiet that was there. We were essentially alone in the garden, there were at most 20 other people there - no tour groups - and it was so quiet there. Even Sophia noticed the birds and the light, she kept making her "tweet tweet" sound and saying "It's Bright!" Amazingly peaceful, and we caught the garden in between rain showers so everything looked clean & sunny against the dark clouds building in the background.