Welcome September!

Glorious autumn is here...it is September! I am happily welcoming the new season into my home and spending my Monday decorating for the fall.

"But now in September the garden has cooled, and with it my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of beating on my head ... The harvest has dwindled, and I have grown apart from the intense midsummer relationship that brought it on."
~ Robert Finch

This doormat is a new item I found when I took a friend to lunch and to do a little shopping. We did more than a little shopping in the end. My car was literally pack to the roof with items.

I had purchased my pumpkins and gourds a little early. I buy them at farms up north near Cranberry Cottage. My rack by our front door now has been transformed from flowers to an autumn bounty. I find these gourds more cheerful than flowers but that is because I just adore this season!


I found a white pumpkin on the way home on country roads when I was shopping with my friend. It was a place here in the area and am disappointed that this one is already starting to rot. Maybe I will find a new one next week? The tablecloth on my garden table is a new favorite find. It looks like real crochet but is in fact plastic so can be left outdoors and very easily washed off. I think it adds a simple and romatic look.


A fun way to display a large pumpkin is to place it on top of a large candle holder. This heavy concrete candle holder for outdoors is the perfect display with a lantern and one of my pretty ladies.


Jos is very proud of having grapes again this year for the first time since we moved to this house. We had them growing along our fences in our last house but had no success with them in this garden until this summer.


A sweet gift from my husband...

Jos' office closed in August and have moved to the south of the country. He found these when he went in to meet with someone just sitting in the emtpy office. They were throwing out everything and these included. I love unfinished wooden shoes and have a pair at Cranberry Cottage that look old and weathered. He thought I would like having a pair here too and I do! Funny thing was the gift wrapping...he put them in a plastic bag that said Computable. A thoroughly modern Dutchman! *smiles*

"By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer."

~ Helen Hunt Jackson, September, 1830-1885