colors from the Portland farmer’s market
although not dressed as colorfully as some, this ‘Portlandian’ has a heart of gold…
he treated my two cousins and me to this last piece of the best almond cake on earth!!!!
According to the proprietor he treats someone each week – if you are in the right place at the right time……….!!!!
As often happens, inspiration struck while browsing fabric samples at Rooms & Gardens!
love this Italian pesce print
.…part of a favorite color combination: yellow-gold and gray…
– fabrics available through Rooms & Gardens Santa Barbara –
Filed under Inspiration
Activity in the yard and orchard slows substantially as fall progresses…especially with the end of daylight savings time. There are, however, still reasons to be outside enjoying the softer light and quickly cooling afternoons of autumn.
Having delighted us all summer with their huge, frothy blossoms, the hydrangeas must be cut back not only to prepare them for next season, but to keep them from outgrowing their allotted space in the yard.
Cut and loaded on the garden cart, they make a lovely bouquet,
leaving bare canes until spring.
Having enjoyed the Parkinsonia tree all summer,
the carpenter bees have gone wherever carpenter bees go in the fall, leaving behind a pile of sawdust at their front door.
Pomegranates are ready to be picked and brought indoors, where their seeds will delight taste buds and stain little mouths and fingers.
Fruit that has begun to split will be left on the tree as bird feeders where they will be picked clean through the winter by the locals.
The price for the delightful fall colors of the deciduous trees…..
the ultimate fall chore: raking leaves.
and the leaves keep falling…………………..happy Saturday!
So satisfying to make a positive change to my dining room! In fact, so exciting that I decided to try another iteration………..
this time in brown
English transferware
the logos stamped on the back of the pieces are nearly as interesting as the pieces themselves
even nature provides just the right colors in the form of Sycamore pods and starfish
amazing crazing
a different color, a different look
what might you gather together to create something fresh and new in your home???
Filed under Inspiration, Interiors, Nature
Associate blogger and photographer – Haven Rose
Lena laid aside her hand work, placing the needle securely in the spool of thread…………….never to be picked up again.
Pieces of fabric cut for the Hexagon quilt, along with the pattern made of sand paper were neatly tucked into the box.
A section of a new ‘flower’, with a needle waiting to be drawn through the fabric…..
lay atop completed sections.….
ready to be pieced together with pink hexagons to join them to the growing quilt top.
And so the materials remained for 60, 70, perhaps 80 years.
Even now, half a century after Lena’s death, they remain essentially the same.
The box and twenty circles of Dresden Plates ……
inherited along with
brown and white quilt made by my great grandmother Susan Houston Downs and my great great aunts the Houston sisters in Michigan between 1880-1890
red and white star quilt pieced by my great great grandmother Ruth Miller in about 1900
blue and white quilt made by my grandmother Lena Miller Downs
along with unfinished quilt tops
I love Nona’s quilts a lot. They’re so cool!
OOOOOOOOOOOH!
Haven Rose, age 7, is the great great great granddaughter of Susan Houston Downs,
great great great granddaughter of Ruth Miller,
great great granddaughter of Lena Miller Downs
Filed under Art, Family history
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