Follow Your PassionIn 1892 Monet bought a piece of land across the road from his house in Giverny, Normandy for an ambitious project to create a water garden for the purpose of cultivating aquatic plants. Diverting a small stream from the River Epte, he formed a pool and surrounded it with an artful arrangement of flowers, reeds, weeping willow trees, silver birches, and bushes. Over this he built a wooden, arched footbridge in the Japanese style, painted green. The