Your hosts: Kristi Kerr Leonard, Amy Martin & Ann Willis-Brown
August 18 Saturday ~ 6 pm to midnight ~ Amy’s abode
Rainstorms and bad traffic tried to dampen our party, but we wouldn’t let it. Well, it did keep us inside, except for the prodigious amount of people we managed to cram on the rain porch. Sparkler madness was mostly kiboshed. The raccoons stayed in their dry abodes, so we will try another time to scandalize them.
We were having too much fun and forgot to take many pictures. But here’s what we’ve got. Thanks to Linda Cooke for some of these,
The Guests
Carolyn tells a tale and cracks Stalin up. Sai is bemused.
Linda Pelon (co-author of Comanche Marker Trees of Texas) and pal Kathy.
More blondes!Peace back atcha!
This N TX Master Naturalists table was cackling all night
Complementing the decorIdea exchange in process.
The Kitchen/Bar
On a rainy night, the kitchen was the place to be. Note the containers of cocktails on the table. Might have had something to do with it.
Head blonde Kristi!
The Arctic Blondes
Hostesses in silver lame mini skirts! No one had seen my legs in years.
The idea of it totally cracked me up!Moonlady gets glossed! Lipgloss, that is.
We nature blondes clean up real nice.
The Decor
Enter through the silver tinsel curtain.
Snowflakes! (The decor is actually silver and white, just photographed weird.)
Snow on the summer altar!
Tinsel, baby!
A winter mantle.
Kristi’s snow family.
Part of my snowman collection. The back ones are animated! I’m told the left one is not a moose, but a fat Rudolph. It will always be a moose to me.
Even the black marble bathroom got decorated.
The Rain Porch
Not enough light on the rain porch for photos, but we did manage to fire off a couple of sparklers which helped.
Amy Martin is the author of Wild Dallas-Fort Worth: Explore the Amazing Nature of North Texas (https://wild-dfw.com/), released by Timber Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, in 2022. She is the senior reporter at Green Source Texas (https://www.greensourcetexas.org/) and author of Itchy Business: Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Rash, Prevent Exposure and Eradicate the Plant (http://itchy.biz/). ~ . A journalist for over 40 years, Amy covered comedy, music, and eclectic entertainment, as well as news features, for Dallas Observer, Dallas Times Herald, Dallas Morning News, and D magazine, plus a variety of tabloids and monthlies. Her final entertainment foray was as senior comedy, cirque, and magic critic for the online TheaterJones. ~ . As an environmental reporter (her "day job"), Amy was contributing editor and columnist for the Garbage, a national environmental magazine. She had a recycling column and features page called Taking Trash at The Dallas Morning News. ~ . She was The Aging Hippie columnist for Senior Voice, and the Taoist panel member of the Texas Faith blog of The Dallas Morning News. ~ . Amy was known by many in North Texas as the Moonlady for her alternative newservice of 15 years, Moonlady News, and served as creator/producer/promoter of the acclaimed Winter and Summer SolstiCelebrations for 20 years.
