Love using the embroidered tablecloths from our wedding(!) and they are a handy complement to the flowers in our so-called garden. The fabric btw was found by @mindyricedesign whose eye is as skilled and refined as it is unerring. .
#rancholazaca #californiacookingandsouthernstyle #tablescape #centerpiece #dinnerparty

Sweet Sunday morning. I love the lavender pool reflecting the sky… .
#rancholazaca #santaynezvalley

A blowsy foraged something for the table tonight… a bit kitchen-sinky but sometimes that’s ok. Roses, zinnias, dahlias, guara, manzanita, olive, and grasses…. .
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#rancholazaca #californiacookingandsouthernstyle #centerpiece #rustic #foragedflowers

So dang fun with my nephew @trexfuqua visiting and our fab dinner by @scratch.kitchen @hilliard bruce winery near Lompoc. @amvwine @kristenbmurray @lisabwitt @tomdittmer Caftan and jewels by @ibumovement which i love

Foraged bouquet for the weekend—the zinnias that will not die, the roses still hanging in there, salvia and manzanita foliage. Putting to practice what I learned in workshop earlier this fall with @cultivatedbychristin @simplybyarrangement and @hedgerow and @rosestoryfarm . Now i need to work on the photography… Happy weekend to all, and Happy Birthday my precious Dorothy Isabel the Gizzerd. #rancholazaca #californiacookingandsouthernstyle

Love this via @nmeyers via @terra_naut … although sometimes worrying gets you off your bahunkus to go out and do something about what’s worrying you — which reminds me, don’t forget to vote.

Well I couldn’t say goodnight on that last post on the LOO now could I. That adventure aside, Im so happy to be back home and looking forward to home-cooked dinner at #rancholazaca with @chefstephvalentine !!! #californiacookingandsouthernstyle

Travel is so educational, so deeply experiential and engaging. Take for instance when you drop your phone in the airplane toilet, and it doesn’t stop in the top part of the bowl no no but goes straight down past that metal valve and into the blue goo. That is what it does. And then you have to come out and tell these two adorable sweet flight attendants what happened, and then somehow you just know the entire plane knows, and you feel like the biggest dingbat loser in the world because in that moment, hey, you ARE. And then all sorts of eventualities are discussed. The captain is involved. We land in Santa Barbara. More discussion, doomed scenarios, and possible returns to Phoenix for actual phone retrieval because I cantrememberwhy. And THEN I said let’s pretend this never happened and have you got a plastic bag. Yes they said. Quick I said before the captain comes back. I marched in that loo and put that bag over my hand and reached in there …. and got the sucker… Let’s just say it wasn’t Chanel No 5, but it’s here, inside this gray bag brandished triumphantly if gingerly by these two lovely flight attendants, whose spirits never wavered. As I was saying, travel exposes you to people and plumbing in ways you never imagined, and that is a beautiful thing. Also beautiful: the iPhone 8 is indeed waterproof (and mercifully other things-proof) And remember if you can, which I obviously couldn’t: Do not go to the loo with your phone in your back pocket. Just don’t. You know the saying: I fought the loo and the loo won.
I was lucky this time. Next time, well, it’s not a risk I’m willing to take.
@americanarlines @indagareceo @indagaretravel @cwhittravels @carolinetravelstheworld @therealwanderabout #whenyoudropyourphoneinthetoilet

Together 10 years and married 6. Gets better everyday. I love this photo and keep it on my dressing table in NY. It was taken at Christmas in Aspen at Frances Dittmer’s house at a fun party, as if she could have anything else. She was my husband’s first wife and mother of his children, though i claim them too ☺️. She was F1 and I am F2, and she was gracious to me from day 1. When we marry, we marry families, and I am so grateful for the one(s!) I have. Love you my cowboy, and all your posse. @tomdittmer @abdittmer @jasonjdittmer @alditty #happyanniversary and thank you.

Six years ago tonight we got all gussied up and went to our rehearsal dinner in the barn at #rancholazaca, which was pretty gussied up too. Here the peerless artistry of @mindyricedesign and the organization of @lisavorce made a magical evening. More to come in #californiacookingandsouthernstyle next summer ! #happyanniversary @tomdittmer #rehearsaldinner #seatingcards #barndance #glamorous #yvespiaget #yvespiagetroses

Love me some @carolyneroehm and celebrating her brilliant new book #aconstantthread #designandstyle just out from @rizzolibooks Brava Principessa and a beautiful night thank you @susangutfreund

There was no one else like Mario Buatta. RIP Mario, and may your inspiration, creativity, and zany sense of humor live on in the legions of designers and decor-lovers who followed and adored you. Photo by @scottfrancesphoto from @archdigest via @thisisglamorous