Author: Frances

Love a grocery store centerpiece… pots of tulips 2 for $12! And what we can’t plant, we can eat. #centerpiece #grocerystoreflowers #centerpieceinapinch #tulips #afewfriendsfordinner #rancholazaca #entertaining #tablescape

Frances Dittmer – aka F1 to my F2 – who with @tomdittmer raised two great children and how lucky i am to be their stepmother, and how their fabulous mama is missed by us all. #francesdittmer #frannie

Re-posting my sister’s pic and Happy Mother’s Day to two of the best. Our Mama Ruth on the left and my brother-in-law’s dear mama Dottie at right. We were lucky lucky to have them.

Love this beautiful photo of my beautiful friend with her parasol, which yes, she did take with her when we walked the Camino in April. Of course she did. She’s also a very cool mother. Happy Mother’s Day.

Our favorite pipsqueak passenger rolls into the weekend. Love the carry-on. #piperazzi #granddaughter @abdittmer @tomdittmer

Sometimes you have to improvise glamour. If you dont have the right coat and it is freezing you just march right out there in the hotel bathrobe and pretend you are Julian Schnabel. #FlashbackFriday to last week in Chicago … #glamorous #bathrobechic

Sometimes you’re just walking through your house and the light hits something just so, and you pause, just to appreciate it. This is my sort of cabinet of curiosities, a series of shallow lucite shelves lining a hallway and heaped with heart shaped rocks, butterflies, bones, feathers, shells, and birds’ nests. Might be my favorite part of the house. #rancholazaca #homesweethome #cabinetofcuriosities #butterflies #prettylight #birdnests

Party Girls Die in Pearls, just out by the sublime Plum Sykes, is next on my list! Can’t wait! Repost from @therealplumsykes #plumsykes #partygirlsdieinpearls #greatread

Beehives dot a field on the ranch across the street. Here a few days to do their work and then moved on to the next. There’s a painting in there somewhere. #beehives #zacaranch #foxencanyon #santaynezvalley #losolivos

Fluffy blankets of bright yellow wild mustard strewn about the hills of our Valley. Good to be home. #santaynezvalley #wildmustard #yellow #foxencanyon

Flying over the Grand Canyon, wow. What a planet we have! #grandcanyonflyover #grandcanyon #ourbeautifulplanet #ourbeautifulworld #ourbeautifulplanetearth

It’s lovely to do up a mantle when you have a crowd and people are standing and dancing, because it is elevated and therefore can be seen and enjoyed. More beautiful flowers from dinner last night, from the talented #jodyelting #onwentsia #flowersonthemantle