Friends were having a garden party on Saturday (on the occasion of a birthday) with a Merchant-Ivory theme. (For those of you who are not cinema buffs, Ismael Merchant and James Ivory were a producer-director team who produced a long series of critically-acclaimed
films.)
I wore a tux (thinking of Anthony Hopkins as the butler in The Remains of the Day). This picture was taken in our backyard, before we left for the party...
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The rest of these pictures were actually taken at the party. Most of the attendees wore garden party type attire, but many were more specifically Merchant-Ivory themed. Merchant was from India (Ivory was American) and their early films were all English language films made in India, often based on literary stories written by English authors.
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The following picture is of our hosts -- the birthday celebrant with the
drink in his hand.
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There are beautiful views of pastures and woods around them, the pastures
all divided by traditional New England stone walls. The pastures are mostly
for horses, but I understand that the furthest one usually has cows in
it. (That hammock certainly looks inviting).
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And here's a view of the party and their house. It was a multi-generational party that included babies as well as people who were even older than I am.
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Below, that is Nancy on the left.
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