A month ago I read an article in House & Garden about thinking, and shopping, locally. Of course “locally” to them means New York, but still. Sharon Rose and I set out to have a day in Salem where we Christmas shopped, went to no chain or big box, where we purchased and ate locally. And besides all of that socially responsible stuff, we had a lot of fun:
On The Way 
Lovely! And where did you get the coffee with the Pikes Peaks of foam?
The Wild Pear!
The photo collage of Downtown is great. Somehow it would be fun to use as advertising. Keith (Kate’s partner) gave me (The Arbor) a blog on wordpress for Christmas. Maybe we could link to that. I, of course, have no idea how that works. Anyway, thanks for sending it along. I love it.