SF garden show pre-shopping.

So I am in SF with Miss Susan for the garden show. Today we were at Annie's Annuals. The red Spraxis was AMAZING. Then off to the Ruth Bancroft Garden, the happiest place on earth. Walker and Brian let us sneak into the nursery and do a little shopping. Please note my shopping cart of goodies. And yes, the super humongous Ferdinand Regis agave is mine. YIPPEE!!!!! Thanks guys! You know how much I love you!

Country Living Magazine.....

You cannot imagine how excited I am that DIGS got a little Garden Shop love from Country Living Magazine this month.  The article is titled "Garden Shops Worth the Trip..."  HOLY CRAP!!!!!  They put us in the same article as Terrain and Flora Grubb!!!!!!!  I feel a swoon coming on.........  Check out the article on our website.    www.digs-pdx.com .  

Plant nerd night 13.

Look at my new plant! Yippee! Yucca rostrata. Love love love.

At the beach.

It had been forever since I have posted anything. Yikes. But here is what I've got..... Frenchy, Stella and Jacques at the beach. So cute!

Hello Kitty....

In the middle of Times Square. She looks lost.

Last day of shopping.

Whew!

Last night in NY

It's actually not freezing and having dinner at Benoit. Lovely!

Dinner time!!!

2nd ave deli with miss Anita. We need pastrami! And a beer.

On my way!

Heading to NYC for the gift show! Yippee! I think it has stopped snowing.....

the shop is looking great!

getting ready for VD at the shop....we have so many goodies for everyone on your VD list!  stop by for a visit.....as always, the espresso is on us!  

all photos by heidi lauman - she is the best!!!!!

Latest vintage find.

Just you wait and see what we will be doing to these chairs. Tune in again to see the results.

Beautiful hardy succulent planters...

.... at the shop. Really lovely and locally made!

Yippee!!!

6 of us at Mint to start with cocktails. Now it is off to Lincoln for din din!!!

WHAT A GREAT YEAR!!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!

I am soooooooooo incredibly grateful for this last year!!!!!!!!!  It has been amazing both personally and professionally!  I am grateful for my amazing and supportive husband.  I am grateful for the talented, wonderful and crazy hard-working staff at my shop. I am grateful for my loving friends and family - I cannot do without anyone on this list!  Thank you for being you and for making a most awesome 2012.  Here is to an even better 2013!!!!!!

All hands on deck.....

Look at what we just got at the shop. Mini ceramic glove molds. Super cute!

Turkey

I found this photo I took last month in Ephesus, turkey. I thought it was pretty cool. Had to share.

A day off.

The slightly eerie looking Xmas tree at Bridgeport Village and an amazing Bouche de Noel at Jamison to celebrate Miss Sue's bday. T- minus 6 days till Xmas. Oh..... Did I mention that it snowed in PDX this morning? Nice!

Hilarious!

I saw this friendly holiday sign in the window of Escape From New York Pizza on NW 23rd. Hungry?

....gifts for the hostess.......

I need a beer.

Luckily I found a gnome beer. Perfect.

Let the games begin!

Waiting for Costco to open. Me and 20,000 other people. The week of Thanksgiving. What is wrong with me?

Safe and sound.....

Layover in NYC

So we flew onto NYC yesterday afternoon from Istanbul for a 24 hour layover. Checked into our hotel. Layed around like slugs for the rest of the day, got pastrami sandwiches from Junior's and hummingbird cake from Magnolia Bakery downstairs at Grand Central - we stayed at the Grand Hyatt at the station - and got up this morning with a jump start! We walked the Highline Gardens, strolled through Chelsea Market and had brunch outside at The Standard. What a beautiful day.....

Then it's off to midtown for a little shopping and off to the airport......

A perfect end to a perfect vacation!

I have waaaaaay more to post about Turkey, but it just had to wait!

Too funny..,,

There are exactly 5 camels in Turkey -as they are not indigenous, but tourists expect to see them, so there they are - and we found one.....

Pigeon holes.

First off, this Viagra market was too damned funny. We made a stop to
Look into the valley of pigeon holes - limestone caves made for pigeons by the locals to make it easy to collect pigeon droppings to use as fertilizer as the soil in that area was not great for planting crops. We were on our way to the outside museum of goreme where early Christians built homes and churches into the limestone to hide the practice of their religion while it was still illegal. But more on those structured later. Here we found a tree loaded with the Turkish good luck charm of the blue eye. It was beautiful in the light....,