Electronic bugs be gone: Kykuit tour tickets are once again available online. The Rockefeller estate opens for the season on May 10 with a new, streamlined tour menu - Classic, Grand, Kids, Timesaver, and one the Kykuit gurus like to call "Selected Highlights." Pretty much everything up on that hill is a highlight, so I'm not sure how they select them. Good topic for a future entry. I'll track down the responsible party and find out.

In the meantime, you can read all about the various tours here. Slots for opening weekend, which coincides with Mother's Day, are already filling up, so if treating mom to a Kykuit jaunt is in your plans, you may want to solidify them now.

What's up there, you ask? Way too much to get into in one blog entry, but, for starters, a six-story stone mansion, formal gardens, classical art, modern art, and the valley's best views of the Hudson.