We celebrated Bill Dalton’s birthday last night at the Burt’s residence on a surprisingly mild evening in the beautiful Oakland Hills. Ben prepared another of her world-famous Thai dinners with help from Tum. We met Tim Cahill – founding editor of Outside Magazine and prolific travel writer and his wife Linnea. Jerry Alexander dropped by with a few bottles of the best wine you never tasted. Fabulous!

There really were eleven people at our dinner party, but as you can see, your faithful photographer was smitten by Bill’s lovely daughters, Ari and six-year-old Aysah.

Happy Birthday, Bill. It was great to see you!