our children revere mr. jones’s home-town as the land of milk & honey. or milk, cousins, adventures, horses, hunting, hiking, sun-drop and honey. (not that chicago and tucson, on the maternal side of our equation, are anything less!) anyway, i’ve come to feel that way about columbia too…it seems that every time we go, there is something lovely going on, and we are so grateful to be included by family & friends there in all kinds of festivities. in september, mary susan and delk kennedy once again hosted a wonderful hunt supper at their lovingly tended glendale farm to mark the start of dove season:
and the polk memorial society gave their biennial dinner/dance/auction benefit at hamilton place. the ladies of the polk work tirelessly for months to ensure every creative, clever, thoughtful detail of the evening is perfect. each time, there are fab painted touches, including the dance floor in the dinner tent…this year’s was black with a red and cream border, in the same scheme as this silhouette (below, left) which marked the entrance to the ladies’ powder room/tent:
joneses heart columbia.