Cook Your Fall Vignette

This is a Fall vignette that you can totally cook when you are through with the display.  Rich vibrant colors  paired with the copper and small pumpkins assure you it is for Fall.  You have to get your green veggies to stay healthy so I thought if I display them I will for sure cook them afterwards!  Vibrant red roses paired with brussel sprouts and artichokes are occupying my big copper tub.  We actually had a few wisteria blooms on the bush, I don't remember that happening in mid-September ever.  A couple of pumpkins appear to be floating nestled on top of the green glasses.



Vintage candlesticks add a flavor of history.







I cut a little of everything that was blooming in the yard this weekend, including zinnias, jute and wisteria.



I like the silvery look of the back of these leaves, I can't ever remember the name.


























Jan

Displaying with Trays

While many enjoy displaying with tiered trays, I along with my husband and offspring are very adept at knocking things over.  To alleviate any marital discord I have thus far kept the trays in our home to one tier and next to a supporting wall.  This will prove to be safer for all who enter my home and what possessions are on display from being knocked off and sent air born to only fall on or at another person or animal.  There is something in the gene pool that I married into and reproduced with that doubles the chances of something being knocked over.  I don't know if it's the animated talking with hands or the complete concentration on the task at hand that blinds us to the realization of the placement of the tray.  Either way, I fear a tall tray on my kitchen island would be flying off briefly after its placement.  Wink!


Trays help corral your pretties and keep everything more in focus rather than scattered too loosely. I was fortunate to come across this footed silver tray recently at a consignment store.  It compliments the vignette of pears and roses and gives it a sense of importance.  I do love the look of vintage silver.  You can dress it up or go very casual with it but it will always elevate what is sitting in it or around it.  The painting is one that I cherish painted by my greatgrandmother.  The colors of the painting paired with the roses and pears bring an autumn warmth.  Mint julep cups were also found at a consignment store and display the roses.











Continuing my love of blue combined with fall colors is the blue and white lamp.







The vintage dish reveals the pears with other rich colors that mimic fall colors to me.  The wine colored vintage books act as a tray holding the fruity dish.  A large green velvet pumpkin sits in front.














Jan

Plumes Please!

I shared these pretty plumes I came across on my prior post.  The  mister went into the woods edge and cut a few for me.  He kept asking me how much?  I said all you will cut!  He was covered in begger's lice when he came out.  This was on my sister's property so no we weren't trespassing!

I am so glad he granted my wish.

I cut them and brought them inside and have a fall look happening!

It came out very tall and striking, I was pleasantly surprised.

First I had to figure out the best spot to photograph it...no, not here.

Not here either...

Better, let's see...

Yes!  They even  go with my wallpaper. : )

I sprayed them with bug spray on the back porch and let them sit in a big vase, full of water, outside overnight.  I haven't been eaten up by any bugs so it worked.  I trimmed the length otherwise it would be out of control.  The plumes go well with those lavender fall like hydrangeas.

Now it's on the back porch!  It has 'bloomed' out and I didn't want to take chances with it inside.  Oh well!





Jan



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October Sundays

Hello!  What do you do on Sunday afternoons?   The outdoors are so perfect and inviting this time of year.  You can create wonderful fall treats in the kitchen, put a vignette together on the back porch or read a book outdoors.

I have a macho rooster named Ford Henry out here.  He is watching guard over my pumpkins and flowers.

According to P. Allen Smith said this is a Ageratum plant, as he showed his plant which looks so much better than mine.  We didn't plant it, it just showed up.

A little golden rod.

The mister decided to let the strange looking plant to grow in the backyard this summer.  I really had doubts about it.  It seems we have a goldenrod plant now.  I have to admit it makes for good photos!

Jan






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Cotton and Cattails

Hey!  How’s everybody?  The mister brought me some cotton and cattails when he recently went to the  Mississippi delta.  Yay!  I was so glad to get this!

I got ate up by a lot of itty bitty bugs that were too small to see.  If you are going to handle this stuff you should probably spray it with bug spray first.

My mister grew up next to  a farm in Louisiana and picked cotton in the summers growing up.  The cotton fields were behind his house and the bayou was in front.  He used to play in the bayou (pronounced bye) everyday when he was a young boy.

They use to play with the young alligators, the smaller ones, before they got big.   Catching catfish and crawlfish was an everyday thing after school as was helping next door neighbor, Rosie Brown, cast her fishing line from a bamboo pole to catch garfish for supper.

Weekend campouts on the banks with all the kids in the small community was a great adventure of discovery.  Frog hunting, nutria chasing, shooting snakes and whatever they could do to stay up all night was the highlight of every week.

I tell him we need to write down his stories ;)!!



Jan

Copper, Roses and Fall

School has started back and my thoughts have turned to fall.  That time of year that makes us giddy.  When the sky couldn’t be bluer and the cooler weather makes us feel almost childlike.  Excited from the chilly weather and surrounded by the autumn hues it is a season of treasure

Surely I will be impatient for it to return but it will,  just as it did last year and the year before that and all the previous falls before.

It’s a special time.   We are happier in the fall.  Children and pets playing in the leaves, coming indoors with a runny nose that is cold to the touch.

Kitchens smell of chili cooking on the stove.  Hot chocolate reappears in our cup.

For a southerner, its a promise of sweet nippy air.  It lifts one up if only for a few weeks into a  remembrance of one’s youth with the enthusiasm and endless futures before us, as only a child knows.

Certain of  never growing out of childhood.  Forever surrounded by your parents and grandparents.  Only a child knows this.

This certainty that you will always have your best friend to play with and your heart is full and untouched by sadness and despair that life is surely going to give you.  But for now you are untouched.  The joy is limitless.

Fall, the beginning of the school year.  Later the fall of our lives means something entirely different.

But in the beginning days it brings even those in the winter of their lives a glimpse of their endless youth.

Jan