Some friends of mine hung these up during the winter holidays and they liked it so much, they kept it that way.  Nice reminder of cooler weather during these hot hot summer days.

Marfa is a unique art town in the middle of West Texas.  Seemed like every time I turned around, there was something else to photograph.

Dan and Leesy got married waaaaay out in Marfa, Texas, probably one of the coolest places, ever.  They are from Brooklyn (equally cool!), and most of their guests were, well, not from Marfa, so it was quite a journey for everyone.  When that happens, you know that everyone who made the journey is someone special to the couple.  There were many witty and touching toasts, plus a spirited hora among the cactus and Airstreams.

After the hora, the guests were rewarded with locally sourced food prepared by the rockstar caterer, Outstanding In The Field.  They are known for traveling around the country making dinner and serving it at one super long table. They came into Marfa a few days early and gathered the food from locals.  They even got a goat, which must not happen very often because they were quite psyched about it.  They listed all dishes on the menu and credited the people that had provided the food.  It was a memorable wedding dinner.

Both Dan and Leesy are creative (Dan is an architect and Leesy is a textile designer) so it’s no surprise to see all the amazing design details that went into the wedding.  There’s the “YAY” signs, and the Airstreams with signs.  The paper pom poms, which always delight.  The huppah was made by Dan. Margaritas with little flags.  The invitation was a poster using wood, metal and digital type screen-printed over abstracted map of Texas.  Even the welcome bag was personalized using silk screening.

Other notables:

the location:  House on the Hill

Friday dinner and Sunday brunch and the wedding cake:  Austin Street Cafe

Dan’s suit:  Paul Smith.  Nice.

As always, thank you to the talented Alina Prax of La Dolce Vita Photography for bringing her talent (she shot ALL film and rocked the hora!)

One more thing:  Dan and Leesy were thrilled to find a film shooter for their wedding.  They are kindred spirits because a) Dan required me…in my contract (!!!)…to shoot polaroids with his vintage SX-70 and b)  they sent me a vintage SX-70 as a thank you gift.  I feel privileged to document all three days of their wedding.  Yay!

What a beautiful botanical.  I don’t know what it is…but I like it.

Cafe de Stijl is tucked away, the service can be awful slow and the parking is through the roof expensive.  Yet, I always go there when I’m in San Francisco because of the big bowls of lattes (reminds me of my morning coffee when I lived in France) and the artsy furniture.  I keep forgetting who makes the furniture but I promised myself that one day I would commission the artist to make some for me.

I also liked their steamed eggs.  As for the slowness, I just take it in stride and pretend that I’m really in a European bistro.

Update.  Artist found!  Randy Castellon.  He’s a genius, check out many of his projects his gallery.  Thanks to another talented designer, Nilus De Matran of Nilus Designs for letting me know!

Garlands are cool!  Really, how simple to make something from twine and gathered twigs and pinecones, then use it to decorate.  Watch out Martha Stewart, I have oodles more ideas like this. 

This bathroom floor made me happy.  From Kris and Claude’s house in Mar Vista.

Cat versus computer and I’ll let you decide who won.  I love the look on his bewildered kitty face:  “can I get some help here?  huh?  can’t you see that I need petting?”

I know that I’ve mentioned how much I like food.  Yes, even in yesterday’s blog post.  So I was perusing my archives looking for today’s photo and voila, how appropriate! 

Yeah, I do like lightbulbs.  And koi fish.  And coffee cups.  Oh and today’s word (in my bathroom) was “lunch”.  A very good word. Anything having to do with food is good.