COVER STORY WRITTEN BY VALERIE EASTON PHOTOGRAPHED BY BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER
ON THE COVER: Landscape architect Barbara Swift is captured in a rare moment of repose in the courtyard of her lush Ballard garden, which she created to suggest the notion of "a wild urban refuge."

PLANT LIFE Pick Of The Roses With blushing faces and plenty of charm, the ingénues are tempting us. ON FITNESS Taking Steps Try getting back into the swing by going for a walk. NOW & THEN Making a Way on Madison

TASTE Clues You Can Use To know your wine better, look at those labels. NORTHWEST LIVING A Barn Raising A former animal house is home for humans now.

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