I came home to Seattle this weekend for a friend’s wedding and managed to get in some family time visiting all my favorite spots in Seattle – including the glorious flower stands in Pike Place Market- and then took a twirl on the new ‘Great Wheel’ (like the London Eye) which sits on a pier…
seattle
team varsity
sweater: old Anthropologie, skirt: trouve (similar here), boots: Frye, tank: BR Varsity sweater jackets are made infinitely better with intarsia kitties on the back. I actually got this zip up sweater jacket years ago, mostly because I liked the homage to the classic vintage ‘Varsity jacket’, and of course, because the kitty on the back…
grown ocean
sweater: Vince, top: Aritzia, skirt: BR, boots: Frye “In that dream I’m as old as the mountains, still as starlight reflected in fountains, children grown on the edge of the ocean, kept like jewelry kept with devotion” – Fleet Foxes, Grown Ocean I had the privilege of growing up in a really special place…on the…
feeling for: rugged chic
This post is partially inspired by my ‘Fall escape’ photo story from earlier this week. ‘Rugged Chic’? I’m loving it, can’t get enough. It’s the Seattle in me? Or perhaps its the aura of permanence and durability in this faction of fashion that and in some ways suggests ‘anti fashion’ – which I sort of…
jamberry
Raspberry, Jazzberry, Razzmatazzberry, Berryband, Merryband, Jamming in Berryland one of the best things about summer is jamming in berryland! i love summer berries, on my cereal in the morning, for an after dinner treat with sugar and whip cream, or just out of the box in the afternoon. when i was at home in seattle over the…
wandering in wonderland
The day before I left Seattle, Mom and I decided to take a leisurely post-lunch stroll through the beautiful Bloedel Reserve estate and gardens near our home. In search of the hidden reflection pool (where poet Theodore Roethke famously drowned in 1963), we wound through moss and Japanese rock gardens, ponds and willow trees and…
joie de 4th
morning view: sail boats in the sound belgian waffle brunch fisherman sweater and nana’s 4th of july pin hanging out with kitty jasper and… …brother John dining alfresco sweet seasonal treat: italian strawberry almond creme cake sun setting over the sound … i’m heading back to foggy San Francisco tonight after a leisurely week long…
en vogue (literally…)
I’m literally en Vogue! Okay not me per se… but my hometown is! Bainbridge Island, where I grew up, is featured in this month’s Vogue (June, Penélope Cruz) in their ‘America the Beautiful’ chic getaway feature on pg 135! Kinda crazy as our little island feels like a beautiful little unknown secret part of the…