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Pretty table, pretty wedding, beautiful bride, in every way. Just a few weeks ago, memories of home and Miss Maddie’s wedding. @maddiefirestone @katefirestonebeercom #blueandwhite

Yay!!! Best Best.

The ever handsome design of the ever handsome @michaelmorelli1 #hamptonsliving #hamptonsstyle #blueandwhite #coastalliving

Pretty table, great friends, good times, summertime – though the chilly breeze tried to convince us otherwise. #afewfriendsfordinner #alfresco #hamptonsliving #summerinthehamptons #tablesetting #watermill

Enjoying @marykayandrews fab new #beachhousecookbook and first on my list to try is her Greek salad with steak and shrimp. How can you lose? #YUM

His Grace and me all dressed up for Miss Maddie’s big day, and what a day (weekend!) it was. I mean, look at this setting for the reception! (And yes, i need to have the pockets taken outta this dress…) #loveawedding #westranch #santaynezvalley #whatasetting

No prettier bride, or lovlier family, or more beautiful setting. How lucky we are to have them as friends. #blessedallaround #blessed #perfectday @maddiefirestone @katefirestonebeercom

By the crazy talented @mindyricedesign – peonies, thistle, persimmon, grapevine, and other stuff i dont know the name of…

Haystacks along Zaca Station Road, Los Olivos, #santaynezvalley #haystacks

Early morning, home. Thanks to our rain and morning mists from the ocean (some 15 miles away) the guara and wild flowers are blooming like crazy, and the meadow grasses are green. I love this view just outside the sitting room window and the “pen garden,” dog pen turned rose garden. #rancholazaca #homesweethome #santaynezvalley #losolivos #foxencanyon #socal #santabarbarawinecountry #guara #meadow

To all who served, thank you, including my father who fought in Korea and Vietnam, and my husband @tomdittmer who served in the Army’s 3rd Infantry and in The Old Guard, in charge of guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns, burials at Arlington Cemetery, and various state functions. I would like to credit the image, if anyone knows…

Table doodle of #colanchas during quiet solo dinner the night before my talk in Washington last week at the beautiful Sulgrave Club.