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“Growl only when growled at, let unimportant (and some important) things go, remain loyal, bark less and wag more.”
– Barry Gregg
See more of Barry’s work here.
salted & styled
Love meeting über-talented people — the kind of folks who delight you, inspire you and make you want to raise the bar even higher. Check out Salted & Styled, a wonderful food blog created by culinary writer and stylist Libbie Summers and her friend, photographer Chia Chong. Their recent photo essay on backyard chicken farmers got us smiling.
Libbie’s hard at work on her next cookbook; meanwhile, you can check out her first, The Whole Hog Cookbook, devoted to pork lovers who want to go “whole hog” in their tastebud pursuits.
Chicken farmer photography by Chia Chong
Styling by Brooke Atwood, Katherine Sandoz, Brenda Anderson and Libbie Summers
#followfriday
Have you heard of The Southern Coterie? It’s a collaborative that celebrates the people, places and things that make the South so special. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest or sign up for their Wednesday emails to add a little more southern-ness to your life’s in box.
if chairs could smile
Remember these? If you were a child in the ’70s, chances are you or one of your friends had a Butterfly Chair in the house. I remember ours so well….Mom and Dad kept them in the back gravel 
driveway and we’d sit out there on summer evenings, batting away mosquitoes, chattering about the day, waiting for it to get almost dark so we could go play Capture the Flag at the Werners across the street. Fast forward to 2012. As the Brooks kids prepared for Mom’s estate sale this past spring, Mike and I were getting ready to leave her house when we took notice of the old chair frames still sitting there in the rocky driveway — lonely and rusted from years of neglect, ivy literally growing up over them — all the family noise and laughter now long gone. On impulse,we grabbed the three heavy iron chairs, hoisted them onto the moving truck and carried them off to Alabama where Mike has been cleaning, sanding and painting them ever since. Then we found a great source, Circa50, which has an in-house seamstress who makes covers for these old classics. So we promptly measured each chair (each one had a different measurement; go figure), put in our order and waited. The custom covers arrived recently and now the old chairs are back in action — waiting for folks to gather round and (we believe anyway) enjoying the sounds of laughter, and life, again.
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After!
not the country (but just as great)
If you haven’t seen Humans of New York, stop working or whatever you’re doing right now and have a look. This blog on tumblr was started by Brandon Stanton in 2010 with the idea of creating a photographic census of New York City, “one street portrait at a time.” Humans of New York (or HONY, as insiders like to say) gives folks around the world glimpses into the inhabitants, spirit and daily life of one of the world’s greatest cities. Thanks to Nasreen, our 14-year-old niece (and tumblr blogger) for sharing this with us….so happy to be sharing NYC with you this week!
Photos by Brandon Stanton
