As the title of this post says, yesterday is put to memory. Firstly, because it was an unexpected and delightful adventure - and secondly, because I am a pathetic photo journalist and hardly have any pictures to share. Sometimes you just have to live in the moment and forget the camera - but it is good to have a few so you have evidence that it actually happened.
I'll spare you the long story of how it all came to be, but here we are - ten women who gathered at the home of my sweet friend Judi Riesch, who is always the best hostess - and yesterday welcomed those from near and far.
We managed to squeeze into the busy schedule of Judy Wilkenfeld as she is stateside for a seemingly whirlwind trip (hailing from Australia!) and happened to be visiting with her friends on our coast this week. After being treated to a tour of Judi's art-filled home (you can imagine the squeees after getting to see art we have become familiar with in our favorite books), we were privileged to have Judy tell us about her Twelve Tribes of Israel book which was on tour with her. The book is so much bigger than you can imagine - breathtaking...stunning... layered and embedded with meaning and symbolism, representing the twelve sons of Jacob. It was so special to be introduced to the tribes, to listen to Judy's deep passion for this project (which I loved!!) and to meet her and her friends. It didn't escape me that yesterday was also the first day of Passover.
I'm counting on the other girls to have a better account with photos than I do - stop by their blogs and see if anyone shows you more evidence, or at least my cool shoes. Here they are: Leslie Marsh, Susanna Gordon, Judy Wilkenfeld, Bee Shay, Judi (let's bug her to update her website shall we?), Kathryn Gilbert, Jerri Weitz, Karen Cole, and Joy Snyder. I shouldn't have given John a hard time for taking a blurry photo - the guy had a harem lobbing cameras at him - he was a wonderful host.
I admit I avoid blogs that show food pictures. Can't stand it. I think foodies should warn you before they assault you with their dinner plates. (Like just tell me to quickly scroll down about 3 or 4 inches so I can get past the food I don't want to see). I'm breaking my own self-imposed rule of No Food Photos because I have to share these things with you that Judi made for us. I can't even bring myself to call them sandwiches, because that's a pitiful word for what this is. Since I'm not a foodie I have no proper vocabulary to replace sandwich. So here's your fair warning, scroll down quick if you can't stomach seeing food on a blog.....it's only one photo, so a quick 4" flick of the mouse should cover it.
So that's all I have as photographic proof from yesterday - but the treasured memories are countless. A spontaneous day spent with women who found one another because of our love for art!
