At last night's Illumination Awards event in St. Louis I found myself smiling until my cheeks hurt. Thank you, St. Louis lighting community for being energetic, creative, and fun!
I am so grateful for each of you. There are bunches of unique and special individuals in this group, and as a whole we are spectacular!
In the upcoming days we will be posting pictures from the photo booth and quotes from the time capsule on the IES Facebook page and Twitter to stretch out the fun just a little longer...
In the meantime, I'll be working outside on the deck surrounded by my favorite things and enjoying the sparkles of the disco ball!

This year will be my final year as the St. Louis Illumination Awards chairperson. The event is next week. I hope to see you there! Thank you for all of the support and encouragement over the last six years!!

This week an architect said to me, "I don't see any reason why a new product installed today would not be LED." While I don't necessarily agree quite yet, his point is coming true. The times we are living in now are similar to the time of Edison's lamp. The electric lamp brought the end of the gaslight industry. LEDs are bringing the end of filament and arc tube lamps. I can lament that reality or I can make sure that the the LED sources being installed today are of a quality that I want to spend the next 25 years of my life living under.
Let's get out there and specify quality LEDs before every existing socket gets filled with a poor-color, bad color temperature, flickering replacement lamp!