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Wedding Photos!

They’re here! They’re finally here!

If you aren’t already following me on facebook (which I figure about 99.9% of my readers are) you can click on this link to check out some of them. I have almost 400 on my disc but I refuse to be one of “those people” with 7 facebook wedding albums all of pretty much the same stuff. I tried to give my friends something to look at, enough to get a feel of the event (if they were unable to go) but not be bored with.

Photos by the wonderful Mike Spear and Chadwick Gantes at The Visual Theory, who (aside from some US Postal Service problems) were delightful to work with and fun to party with. Thanks, guys!

Good Reads #4

Today’s GREAT read will change the way you eat and the way you think about food.

Click here to be taken to the IDOF website.

In In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan makes the claim that most of what we eat today is not, in fact, food but instead “edible foodlike product” engineered by science.  It makes sense, if you think about it, when it comes to most boxed meals a person can get in a grocery store–dehydrated this, enriched that, most things we eat go through so much processing that even something that appears simple has an ingredient list (mostly unpronounceable) that takes up half of the side panel on the box.

He narrows down his “Manifesto” to this easy-to-remember slogan: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” He adds another rule of thumb–shop around the perimeter of the grocery store, that’s where the actual vegetables, the fresh meat, and the fresh bread are located… makes sense, doesn’t it? As a former adherent of the “I can’t cook!” crowd, I would encourage anyone skeptical about using actual ingredients to give it a go. Ask a friend who is good at cooking for help… healthy cooking is in fact easy!

A Pretty Table

I’m a clutter-er. I have to carve out specific spots in my life where I can just “dump” things because I am not neurotic enough to put everything in its place, all the time, (not everything has a place!! can’t people realize this!?)

Enough of that tangent. I found a good way to keep myself from cluttering my now-unused dining room table (we’ve got to finish refinishing the chairs before we can really use it) is to keep it set–all the time. Now, the jury’s divided on this. Some bloggers think it’s creepy keeping the table set at all times–I think I read someone compare it to a “dinner party for ghosts.”

I love the idea of a full table and I think Queen Martha might like it too. When you’re ready to eat, just wipe out the dishes with a damp paper towel (in case there’s any dust–you would do this anyway if they were in a cabinet for a long time) and the table’s all ready to go!

Plus, and this is part of the appeal for me, I get to show off my fancy new wedding stuff. But I’m such a fan of repetition of shapes that the plates, etc could be cheap-o or disposable, and I would still think it looked good.

Do you think setting a table for nobody is creepy or smart? Please comment!