Super seminar!!!

Alberta Main Street is hosting an amazing seminar on small business marketing featuring Kim Malek, the ultimate marketing MACHINE from Salt & Straw. Thanks to Umpqua Bank for having all of us in their space. Thanks to Aviary for the wonderful little sammies! Yippee for small business marketing!

Stunning

Carmel. Pacific Grove. Monterey. All beautiful! Great road trip'

Road trip!

Frenchy and I tok a bit of a road trip last week. First night....Carmel, CA. Stunning. I used to live in pacific grove (next door). Nice to revisit. Can I have this house in Carmel? Please?

Sitting outside.

It' 77 degrees Sangria(s) in hand. Just me and Frenchy. And the beasties, of course. Delightful. Added a new piece of metal sculpture by the chaise lounges. The Empress of India nasturtiums and the Trumpeter rose are looking awesome. Have a lovely weekend!!!

Guess what this is?

AGAVE MARIA.

Getting ready for Serving Up Style!

Miss Sue and I are at a designers meeting for the Serving Up Style dining room design competition at the Portland Fall Home and Garden Show. Oct. 4-7 at the Expo Center. So much fun!!!! It's a benefit for Molly's Fund Fighting Lupus! Less than 100 days away! Time to get designing!!! Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!!!

My garden in bloom today.

Clematis Petit faucon. Clematis wild man. Gnome with aloe hair. Dahlia mystic enchantment. Abutilon gumdrop. So much color. So much fun. Off to go water.......

Our pets are our children.

Munchkin. Stella. Jacques. So freaking cute! Love them!!!!!

It's been so long....

Since I have posted something! So here is the gratuitous succulent-ish photo of the day. Aloe polyphylla. A HUGE specimen at Cactus Jungle in Berkeley in March on my road trip with Miss Loree of Danger Garden. Stunning!!!