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Jun 09, 2021 • #blue #charlottesville #dahlia #peony #pink #strawberry #trout

5/17/21 - Blue Ridge and Pink Love and Happiness

5/17/21 - Blue Ridge and Pink Love and Happiness
I had a stellar week -  I travelled down to Charlottesville to set up for a trunk show at the very chic Quirk hotel (more on that below), undaunted by the prospects of a gasoline crisis in Virginia.  Nothing was going to stand in the way of my great peony adventure at Pharsalia Farm, and a visit with an old friend and her husband.   The beautiful interiors at Quirk, along with the Blue Ridge mountains and a profusion of peonies, inspired this week's color pairing.

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Jun 09, 2021 • #dinner party #lemon #peony #pink #shrimp

5/10/21 - Pink Peony Dinner Party - with shrimp & grits and lemon tart

5/10/21 - Pink Peony Dinner Party - with shrimp & grits and lemon tart
After I was first married and before I had children, I liked nothing better than a rainy Sunday spent pouring over a paper copy of the New York Times, then a stack of Gourmet magazines and a pile of cookbooks, dreaming up menus for dinner parties - some of which I had, some of which I only dreamed about having.  My brain was younger then, but I could probably still do pretty well in a trivia contest based on "Gourmet Entertains" menus.   (Other trivia categories today ... errr probably not so good).   One image that is indelibly stamped in my brain is "Pink Peony Dinner Party" from Martha Stewart's "Menus for Entertaining". 

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