And here we are transformed into an elegant environment for an afternoon wedding luncheon.

One of the most enjoyable things about our business is the constant variety of events and people.

This summer we had Vittles and Fiddles, a wedding, various lunches, lots of music, a couple of art openings and the usual outdoorsy gatherings of campers and canoeists and cottagers.

An annual event is the Great Sneezy Waters and Zeke Mazerak performance in the cafe. Here, Wilno's own Rev Ken Ramsden joins in with his fiddle.

The dramatic paintings are part of the Wild Women in Wilno show which is here in our cafe and the new lower gallery until Oct 8.

And outside, we replaced our old fading sign with a bright and shiny new one with a more modern script and style.

And we have plans for next year which include expanding our dining area into the sunroom overlooking the hills and moving our bar (actually building a new and longer bar) into the main room so we can save ourselves a lot of steps back and forth to the beer and wine fridge in the rear kitchen.

In between cooking, Tom is renovating the downstairs so we can open our new gallery for the Wild Women in Wilno show on Sept 1. We decided to use steel on the ceiling which gives the place a very distinctive look. We call it "agra-chic". The original idea came from the shop at Dad's farm, where they covered the walls of the old granary with steel to make a new workshop area.

Tom's sister sent us a clipping from some Seattle magazine which touts this as a very dynamic urban look....and Margaret and Ben have done their own house with this sort of steel on the back wall.