A Rustic Harvest Table; Come Celebrate!

We've got a few tomatoes still hanging on in the garden border, but I may have to ask my cousin Anne for a recipe for Fried Green Tomatoes; my biggest tomatoes are just clinging to their vines, stubbornly green.

It's Harvest Time!

The local farmstands are bursting with bounty.

Yesterday, at the farm where I take my Dad to buy apples,

I bought Winesaps, Northern Spys, and the world's biggest and most gorgeous cauliflower.

Come back tomorrow for nekkid photos.  Of the cauliflower.  Before I cook it.

 (Links to Thursday blog parties at the end of the post;

I'm Tablescaping and Thrifting!)

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There's a place at the table for you in That Old House's dining room today.

A rustic, harvest table.  No shiny things!

What I used:
+ My Thanksgiving china, bought 20-plus years ago at Bradlee's.  Used one day each year.  I've got service for 24, so I now have to supplement with other white dishes.  I bought them for the price and because I thought the Della Robbia-type border suited Thanksgiving so well.
+ Mixed vintage flatware, some rather tarnished.  Ambassador silver from 1920, hotel plate from mid-20th century, and nickel silver from late 1800s.
+ Mis-matched handblown wine goblets.  Thrift shop finds.
+ Very old pewter goblets.  They were my mother's; she loved old pewter.
+ Tan linen napkins from Sur le Table -- I got 7 of them for $1.99 on eBay.  That's a $26 savings over retail.  Tags still on!
+ Covered pewter dish -- a wedding present.
+ Tiny funky gourds, from the farmstand.
+ Heavy pewter candleholders -- wedding present.
+ Wine from Williamsburg Winery -- Two Shilling Red.  A gift!
+ My Mom's old pewter salt and pepper shakers.
+ Pewter and amethyst glass hurricane -- gift!
+ And a heavy cotton woven tablecloth my sister and I gave my Mom about 8 years ago.

I think that's it.  Oh!  And a pot of ivy in an old silver bowl;

I know ivy doesn't live well indoors, but it's so pretty and photogenic I bought another pot anyway.

So what are you waiting for?  Have a seat!  -- Cass

It's Tablescape Thursday. 

Visit Susan at Between Naps On The Porch for a slew of beautiful table settings!  Click here.

Leigh of Tales From Bloggeritaville hosts Thrifty Thursday.  Check it out here!

At Coloradolady, Suzanne hosts Vintage Thingies Thursday. Go see her Thingies, here!