Faris Dinner

When Jack and Karen Faris (friends of 32 years) arrived with their children, Bob and Anna, Anna's husband Ben, and their guest from Italy, Piero, it was time to pull out all the stops for dinner.

The Table

Green was the theme of the antique dishes, which were Spode Copelands and Aynsley. Gold-rimmed glasses from the 1920's accompanied the dishes.

Piero, Anna, and Ben

Before dinner

Bob and Lauren

Bob and our daughter Lauren before dinner.

Mark

Mark happily presides over the table.

Anna and Ben

I thought there couldn't be anyone as sweet as Anna, but Ben is her equal.

Centerpiece

The pears matched the dishes.

Afterimage

Plates are clean at the end of the meal.

Afterimage

The glass is more than half empty.

Dessert

Clearing the table for dessert, flambeed with a blow torch from Home Depot behind scenes in the kitchen.

Jack

Jack gives his verdict on the dinner.

Jack and Karen

A little cognac and some good conversation ended the evening.

Anna and Ben

Anna and Ben are as nice as they are beautiful.