Descanso Gardens is a beautiful botanical garden in La Cañada Flintridge (20 minutes from downtown L.A.) Absolutely breathtaking, especially when you are with the cutest child EVER. This enchanted forest was the perfect backdrop for photos of my sister and niece. It was so much fun running around and pretending to be winter and warm fairies :-) (you know what I'm talking about if you have watched Secret of the Wings.) Will definitely be going back in the Spring…I can only imagine how incredibly pretty it looks.