Falling For Fall

It's official.

The calendar dictates that Summer is ka-put, 

and that Autumn has arrived in all its technicolor splendor.

I'm buzzing off soon to buy a pair of twin headboards that have such lovely lines -- Craigslist, $5 for both -- so I am borrowing pictures taken a year ago for another Tablescape.  I think the setting blends Fall colors and themes with the last sweet whispers of Summer. At least, that was the plan!

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If I were an art teacher, and I looked at the palette that Mother Nature was planning to use to paint her Autumn scenes, I'd probably tell her to tone it down.  "It's a bit much, dear," I'd say.  "How about fewer brilliant oranges and reds?  Maybe a touch of the neutral here and there, give the eye a rest?"

Thank goodness I am not Mother Nature's art teacher.

She's bold, our Mother Nature, and she ain't afraid of gaudy.
(In fact, I suspect she wears too much jewelry, loves purple, and teases her hair, but that's material for another post.)
Anyway, Mother Nature sure bids Summer goodbye with sizzle.

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  In the dining room at That Old House, the table is set for two, for an early Autumn supper.

The expected oranges and golds and reds and yellows are all there; even some brown to represent the leaves falling outside.

But to give Summer it's due -- after all, it is in the 80s today -- there's the soft blue of that season's water and sky.

There wouldn't be those brilliant hues of Autumn without, first, the clear blues and greens of Summer.

$1 Aqua blue plates from Dollar Tree, $1 painted pottery bowls (they have touches of blue-green in their leaves) from the defunct Cost Cutters drugstore chain, thrift store handblown wineglasses in watery blue, Dollar Tree tea light birds, very vintage plaid linen napkins, my century-old Georgian silverplate flatware, and my Mom's old pewter S&P shakers.

And that's it!

A table that mixes the bright and gaudy colors of Fall with the soft blues of Summer.

Just what I need right now, as I'm not completely ready to let go of those lazy, hazy, special days.

Have a lovely Thursday! -- Cass

Leigh at Tales From Bloggeritaville hosts Thifty Thursday.  Click here!

Susan of Between Naps On The Porch hosts the famous Tablescape Thursday.  Click here!