Encouraged by my autumn loving husband I am trying to embrace the season. I've added a few autumnal touches around the house.
He's not a lover of the velvet pumpkins, but I adore them.
I was going to originally title this post "Autumn, I can do that"...but I realize I'm really not all that good at it so I shouldn't boast. My touches are minimal. I bought 3 (3!!!) gourds. Here's one along with some seed pods of a Liriodendron tulipifera. What I really want you to notice in this photo is the amazing graphic representation of a Fouquieria splendens. I bought it at Flora Grubb and it's the work of John Bell.
Here are the other two gourds, and tucked into the front of the white vase is the hair comb (still looking good!) I wore during the opening night of the 2014 Portland Garden Bloggers Fling (you had to be there for that to make any sense).
Okay now we're getting serious about the holiday, a vintage paper Halloween mask. A couple of years back I went up to Seattle the weekend before Halloween, I came home to discover a pair of vintage masks Andrew had found while out doing some early Christmas shopping.
This one (temporarily) hangs over a sconce in our hallway. The best part is after-dark it can be seen glowing from out on the street. Passers-by might be left wonder about the masked man...
This is the other mask...
Those Craspedia globosa have been going strong for months.
The pumpkin moves back and forth...
We don't have any outdoor decor this year, I never got around to buying a pumpkin or three. As glimpsed yesterday our neighbor's Rhus typhina 'Tiger Eyes' is stunning this time of year, it's orange tint makes a festive view from our living room window. I frequently consider adding one to our garden, but then I remember, I don't have to!
In another neighbor's front garden.
Lila paused and I thought she saw the skeleton. No, it was the cat. I appreciate the understated touch. No big blow up pumpkins, spiders or witches. Just a skeleton hanging out in the ginkgo...
Whatever and however you might celebrate the season, and the holiday, I hope you're making the most of it. I leave you with a scene from the fun Disney short from 1929: "Silly Symphony "The Skeleton Dance" something Andrew grew up with that he recently shared with me (click on the title to watch)...
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