Mad for this Mag

Today I received my much-anticipated Fall issue of Flower, the ultimate magazine for all things, well, flower! I love love love this quarterly publication (although I wish it were a little more frequent than that!) out of Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham is also the home of Southern Living, Cooking Light, and another favorite (now sadly defunct), Cottage Living.

In one section titled Design School there are step-by-step instructions and photos on how to put together a particular arrangement. For this issue, they recruited Amy Osaba, a talented Atlanta floral designer, to create a beautiful "cornucopia of color".

Amy giving a demo

Pick up the magazine to see the gorgeous final masterpiece!



Also in this issue is a spread on the absolutely amazing outdoor fall "farm fresh" wedding of Elizabeth Shaw McWilliams, the daughter of Margot Shaw, Flower's editor. The floral designer for the event was Sybil Sylvester of Wildflower Designs who is also design editor of the magazine.




Again, pick up the magazine for more photos from this glorious wedding, along with fall florals by David Lavoy, and an interview with interior designer Bunny Williams (who has a knack for flower arranging, are you surprised?).

One more mention before I get back to reading... an article on the High Line, a public park created out of the abandoned and almost-demolished elevated railway on Manhattan's West Side. I've heard about this rail yard transformation elsewhere, but now I'm ready to take a trip to visit it for myself!

Awaiting Autumn

Something I've always loved about living in Atlanta is that we experience each season. It would really be strange for me to have Christmas in a warmer climate, although we are not quite lucky enough to have a white one here!

But what I love more than the seasons themselves is the change from one to another, and the transition between summer and fall is the most exciting to me. Yes, it's still climbing into the nineties these days, but you can definitely feel the approaching cooler weather in the morning hours.

I was lucky to design a wedding last weekend that was a palette of oranges, reds, yellows... a perfect color scheme for celebrating the coming season. These photos show personal flowers that accompanied the wedding party down the aisle.



This wedding really got me excited about autumn, which officially arrives Wednesday September 22, 2010 at 11:09 PM ET. I am a big fan of Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons, so I'm listening to the "Autumn" concerto... listen to the 1st movement!