Slow Summer

All images courtesy of The Slow Season

I initially posted about Katie Hanburger's and Julie Cho's company The Slow Season back in January.
Hooray: They have just launched their first collection!

From their website:
"We are The Slow Season, a Los Angeles-based partnership committed to making, designing and printing something new, in the form of small collections. Each collection will be different from the one that came before. Runs might be very limited or mass-produced but the pieces will always be experimental and represent a particular moment. "

Purchase their products here.

Congratulations Katie and Julie!

It's Still Summer

Carlee wore these over to our house the other evening. I am obsessed.
All images: K. Jacques for Opening Ceremony.

These are also close contenders...

A Less Strict Approach

Goat Cheese Souffle.
Recipe from here.



I made it with thyme and tarragon from the garden.



I served it with an arugula (store bought), heirloom tomato and cucumber salad (our own garden veggies).

Slices of homegrown watermelon and honeydew melon.

Bread and Tomory's homemade quince paste 2010 edition.

I used Natsumi's napkins.



And ran outside after dinner to photograph the yuccas in bloom in the front yard, because I could not resist the evening light.

"This was a time, the early 1970's, when Katherine and Conrad and Jean and Brian Moore and John and I traded plants and dogs and favors and recipes and would have dinner at one or another of our houses a couple times a week.
I remember that we all made souffles. Conrad's sister Nancy in Papeete had shown Katherine how to make them work without effort and Katherine showed me and Jean. The trick was a less strict approach than generally advised. "

- Joan Didion, "The Year of Magical Thinking."

Oh no, trouble... *

All New Fall/Winter 2010-11 Rachel Comey. Images via Totokaelo.

*Thanks Jeana, for inspiring the title of this post, based on your comment yesterday ;)

Cool.

Watermelon & Honeydew Melon grown in our garden. I love it sprinkled with a little sea salt and cayenne pepper. Crisp, sweet, hot, salty, refreshing, yum!

Also, Tomory on one of my favorite blogs. Cool.

Sh*t.

Rachel Comey Memo Ankle Boot in Plum Nubuck.

Available at Maryam Nassir Zadeh.

***Normally I don't like sound on websites, but go here, & scroll down the left side. So charming!

**** Dear Lord, what happened to August?!?
Final Markdowns in the SHOP (making room for Fall & Holiday Items coming soon)!

Some photographs from this past weekend.

Sunday dinner alfresco at the Morse's home.