The Perfect Day with a Gem

I drove up to San Francisco yesterday

with the sun out and the radio on

knowing that in a narrowing hour I would see one Laurie Brown who has been

a delight through and through

via convos and a short coffee by the Golden Gate Bridge

when I delivered her clutch some months back

She is an artist;

generous,

kind and wickedly funny

A collector of beauty

a lover of birds like none I've ever met before...

a visionary in metal and found objects

with a living space that feels like a vacation somewhere breezy and bright

trinkets and bits from around the world

everything has a story.

She took me to Velvet Davinci

Get a load of that amazing engraving!!

And leaping rabbits, tab set and pillowy - gorgeous!!

Wow! I was in heaven through a lot of that wonderful gallery:

the human brain is a wonderful thing.

I believe Les and Andrea know the gentleman who makes these...

we went to Britex

and I cannot wait to show you what I nabbed:

you'll see soon in design!

There was a tiny cafe with homemade yogurt and fresh fruit

(the kind of homemade yogurt where you take a bite

and look at your lunch partner with wide eyes and hungry guppy mouth - so good you have to gape)

and then back to her home

and the lady dogs!!!

Oh, they're addictive, those three!

She sent me off with bits and pieces

and I left her with a cicada wing or two

knowing

that a friendship is blossoming

and

that feels

positively

radiant.

xoxox,

Allison