As the lucky crow flies...

I love August; our Farmer's Market is overflowing with farm-fresh produce, and our small garden is bursting with tomatoes. Dear hubby and #2 son plant tomatoes in old wine barrels, which they carefully water, prune, and protect from the critters that try to eat them! It's no surprise that we consume a lot of tomatoes at home. While there are excellent canned tomatoes on the market—Cento and Mutti are our top picks—nothing beats the taste of fresh home-canned tomatoes in pasta

It's been a minute since I set a Sunday morning breakfast table! These Metlox Sculptured Daisy plates were actually the very first plates that launched my dish collection. I was living in Miami (many many years ago!) and thrifting with friend and found these plates and thought they were pretty and bought them. Little did I know they'd launch an obsession, I mean collection! We've had a busy summer traveling and haven't really had many Sunday mornings with the whole family at

The Fiesta Tableware Company (FTC) has been busy! Celebrating it's 90th Anniversary, it released a long anticipated and much asked for purple color, "Lavender." We Fiesta people haven't had a true purple since Lilac, which was only sold from 1993-1995. Yes, there have been other purples, Plum, Mulberry, Heather - but no true purple. When it was released earlier this year, I saw it had a dusky hue and was a bit skeptical, but when I received my first piece, I was in love! Lila

This Independence Day is for celebrating the 250th anniversary of our country's independence. We spent the day in the pool with friends, grilling out and enjoying the beautiful weather. In the morning, I went to our local farmer's market and bought beautiful red roses and light and dark blue statice for the center of the table. The statice looks purple in the picture but is definitely more blue in real light. Isn't this tablecloth beautiful? I saw it on https://homeiswherethe