Beautiful--and the food sounds great, too.
How do you make an avocado cake? Will this replace the crab cake?

Dahlink, something tells me that if the avocado cake is only the size of a quarter, it won't replace the crab cake in these parts.

Definitely the lack of sleep. Someone as refined and delicate as a Baltimore columnist would never, ever have more than a sip of alcohol in public, I'm sure.

I wish I had been at the wedding you went to instead of the one I attended. Some people have no idea what food is supposed to taste like and will choose only on price. Good food can be had at a modest price point. How bad was the food? A gentleman at my table announced he had had better food in an Army mess hall. The wine choices were red and white.

EL, perhaps I should have chimed in earlier, to save you some pain, but Gatorade works well to relieve the "lack of sleep" pain you are experiencing.

I am amazed at the extravagance of weddings these days. My dream would be to have a small, intimate celebration with simple food and drink made with lots of love.

o.k. - I have forgotten to include my personal info on about 5 posts this past week - geez

Looks like Yosemite, very nice.

With all due respect to Joe C., it looks more like Muir Woods to me than Yosemite. Plus Muir Woods is just a hop, skip and jump across the Golden Gate from San Francisco, unlike Yosemite which is (what?) an hour and a half away to the east.

Of course, there are probably many privately owned redwood lots that would look like the photo above that most of us will never see.

Lissa ... H. L. Mencken???

Canon, not to my knowledge. I fear I am very far behind on reading Mencken.

Lissa, I think Canon meant that Mencken was the exception to your rule...

Not the only one, I'm sure, BG. My tongue was so far in my cheek I nearly gagged.

(You are right, I was slow on the uptake there. It is way past my bedtime.)

Mencken's palate may have been refined, but his columns were anything but delicate.

I was quite surprised to learn that HLM was quite the ladies' man--and the ladies evidently liked him back.

When I saw HLM, I thought the conversation had turned to His Lord Marmalade; however, when the phrase "quite the ladies man" followed I knew the initials must have stood for someone else.

(Snicker) RoCK, Mencken used to sign books he was giving to his many friends "HLM" for Henry Louis Mencken.

EL, blame the avocado. Bad, bad, vegetable. Trust me.

YumPo, what on earth did avocados ever do to you?

Lissa: migraines. Also, it was a key player in "The Tequila Incident" (in the form of guacamole).

Fair enough, YumPo. I get migraines, too, although not from avocados.

I don't have a Tequila Incident, but I do have a Sambucca Incident. Must be clear alcohol, although vodka was fine. Um...for a sufficiently small value of "fine."

Sounds like a shill at 3:29 PM? (It smacks of trolling the Web for wedding page references and then offering lame requests to get traffic to a non-food website. This is not a recipe blog, by and large.)

I wish I had been at the wedding you went to instead of the one I attended. Some people have no idea what food is supposed to taste like and will choose only on price. Good food can be had at a modest price point. How bad was the food? A gentleman at my table announced he had had better food in an Army mess hall. The wine choices were red and white.

here's another fine example of society's hastening degradation of courtesy.

i'm getting married in two months. i hope and pray that i haven't made the mistake of inviting some ungreatful mongoloid that might make this sort of statement (regardless of the circumstance) in the company of other guests. shame. if you were a child i'd tell you to hush.

Yeah, 3:29 is a shill, but not an obnoxious one. Might as well leave it. They on only shilling in the link.

Yea, and I never know when I'm going to need wedding chair covers.

Oh wait, nevermind, I'm happily married.