Author: Frances

Good morning! Looking forward this week to Letters From Yellowstone by Diane Smith (Penguin 1999) – my way of celebrating our national parks 100th anniversary. Thank you dear @rosestoryfarm for this lovely gift and dear @billyhurbaugh for the matching yellow roses and @thestylejunction for the good luck cranes! #breakfasttray #bouquetoftheday #nationalparks #lettersfromyellowstone #origamicranes

Sunflowers planted along our neighbors’ fence – might make a nice painting. #sunflowers #zacamesa #zacamesawinery #windmill #foxencanyon #grassmountainwines #santaynezvalley #santabarbarawinecountry

Flashback Friday to early summer and sketching in Provence with #julianmerrowsmith and my favorite hat, a gift from @munderskiles

So much to love about this cozy, pretty bedroom of a friend in NC mountains I visited earlier this summer. #bedrooms

Love this vintage Ford truck i spied in Solvang thebother day. #fordtrucks #fordtruck #vintageford #vintagefordtruck

So excited to receive my friend Cynthia Spivey’s fab new book, How To Eat Paleo! @smilingwatergroup #howtoeatpaleo #paleo #paleolife

Sunflowers in our goofy cutting garden. #rancholazaca #sunflowers #cuttinggarden

This morning in the cutting garden, #rancholazaca. #sunflowers and #zinnias #summerflowers

A flung together centerpiece with dahlias and roses from the garden and grapevines and jasmine from around the front door. #usewhatyougot #dahlias #centerpiece #rancholazaca

Interior of #playhouse posted earlier. Little girl’s heaven and a budding artist’s studio, at a friend’s in East Hampton. #pinkandgreen

Detail from “Brooklyn Bridge Moonlight” by Paul Balmer. Have always admired his work, and here he is in the Delta Sky Club at Laguardia Airport. @paulbalmerart #newyorkcityscape #cityscape #airportart

A young friend’s fairytale playhouse and “art studio” in East Hampton. Isn’t it the best?! I could spend the day here… #playhouse #pinkhouse