Decorating the House and Yard for Fall

Yesterday, I visited the Yakima Market in Bothell to finish buying colorful squash and pumpkins and corn stalks to decorate the house and yard.  It was also a beautiful day to put all of the summer furniture, flower pots and yard decorations away until Spring arrives.

The greenhouse is full of all of my summer flower pots and garden posts and supports.  Since most of the new lawn furniture this year is made of recycled plastic water bottles, they can stay outside all year, cutting down on the storage space I need to accommodate the remainder of our outdoor 'accessories'.

Here is a picture of the entrance to the pasture, decorated with corn stalks.  Since all of my flower baskets are still blooming in the yard this year, I have sort of a 'cross-over' look between Fall and Summer, and I like it!  This doesn't happen very often.

The second picture is a still life on the new pine dining room table, which is the focal point of every meal.  On these cooler and darker evenings, the scented candles from Country Village complete the ambience of autumn comfort-food meals.  A fire in the wood stove completes our cozy evenings.