I might have a hard time whenever Autumn comes around because I know that right behind it, quickly comes a season where Mother Nature is bare in our neck of the woods. I miss gazing and taking a walk within the garden to see the rose bushes flourishing or the vegetables and herbs still thriving. With Autumn comes everyone’s love affair with the “fally” things I really don’t like. Artificially colored orange pumpkins, lifeless brown stems or hay stacks. I much prefer the earliness of Autumn, very much what the season looks like in the dessert, particularly during a golden sunset.
This Autumn I was reflecting a lot on past travels, finding the inspiration to take me on new travels and adventures in all sense of the word. I was inspired by family trips, yearly seasonal trips, holidays, and recipes, and a bit of those memories from last autumns we allowed into our cozy arms and made memories.
I’ve been finding music comforting and uplighting, hearing the inspiration in how a specific song or melody allows me to feel, or makes me want to feel in real life.
That’s the beauty of inspiration. Of life. It’s all around you. It may not be perfect, but it is near picture perfect whenever you take a step back to look at from all its lovely angles.
While most find the quintessential fall tree color changing to be the best part of Autumn, I do enjoy the changing in the tones and deepness of sunsets, how they’ve been changing each night. And that’s a bit how Autumn felt like living in Tucson, Arizona. Where there weren’t many trees for leaves to change colors, our garden norms were cacti of all qualities and varieties, so sunsets were our guiding point to the change in the season.
there’s a quiet confidence to this season that, year after year, harvest the promises it made in Spring. {Autumn} reminds us how much of its beauty wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the many months of preparation that came before – the rising of spring and growth of summer – that it requires to provide the abundance we experience during these next few months. How essential each season is to the rhythm of nature is a lesson in Wholeness…
Joanna Gaines
That’s what I wanted to recreate in my autumn inspiration this year. All those feelings above all wrapped in details around the house, placed on a setting at a holiday table, in a new recipe tweak. This imagery and the specific feeling created is everything I want to evoke this Season of Autumn
All images above by Dreamery
And I did mention how I was finding inspiration all around, in the least like of places. Here’s a glimpse of how my garden has been inspiring me so much throughout the last month. What a beauty!
I’m absolutely inspired by the dessert this year. By nature, and the pastel softness it fills the skies and mountainscapes before the start of its barren season. Where the crispness of Autumn exists down below still allowing the greenness of the grass and late blooming trees to shine, while in the distance the slate and pewter stone mountains have been touched with creamy cool coat of the first snowfall of the season.
Plenty of soft cozy shades of warm and cool woods, helping the natural pureness shine in its beauty.
Images Sources :: Bathroom Vanity || Rattan Place Setting || Yellow Dress + Bouquet|| Dining Room || Spanish Inspired Home || Orange Dress in Field || Wood Dresser || Yarn Chandeliers || Wicker Basket Display||
a change is in the air; a great mellowing is at work. It’s in the wind, in the Earth, inside each and everyone of us. And somewhere, not far off in the distance, woodsmoke is seasoning the evening sky…….
Each year, AUTUMN arrives all buster and like an old friend, invites us to come outside and enjoy a few more days of color and light.
in the Fall, we watch the Sky. We watch for rain. We stop to watch the trees and their painted leaves. We pack away our beach chairs and unpack our woolen socks.
Each year Autumn reminds us to return to the routines that anchor our lives in time. We feel nostalgia deeply and embrace ritual fiercely. We go home again.
We relive glory days. We gather together in September stadiums, around October bonfires and long November tables. In the shadow of the dimming natural world, we tell and retell tales.
….every Autumn is another turned page, another chapter completed, a bit more perspective on the full story of our lives – the rising and falling – the discovery and loss – the sacrifice and surprise. Isn’t this the story of all of life, of ends that follow beginnings and then make room for new beginnings?
Let’s harvest all the light and life and goodness that we can. Here and now, during the sweet golden hour of the year.
- words by Austin Sailsbury
Images Sources :: Kitchen Shelves || Rustic Food Styling Display || Greenery Tablescape|| Minimalist Stone Nook || DIY Reusable Sandwich + Snack Bags || Fig + Farro Bowls || Chocolate Zucchini Bread || Super Food Jam and Peanut Butter Cups || Dried Foliage Leaf Wreath||
Who doesn’t crave comfort food during the chill of Autumn? Even I who steer clear from cheese sauce covered dishes or frosting glazed cakes, even I am drawn to make comforting flavors of seasonal spices and herbs, different cooking techniques like roasting in a cast iron, or using the most of the season’s limited available produce. Cooking and baking during these months is somewhat of a challenge but one I often get excited to take on in the fall.
This year I’m going to step into Autumn officially with some gooey chocolate zucchini breads to use up the large but lovely garden gem, some grain and dark green hearty salads, cozy nutrient rich soups and some homemade PB cups to wash it all down.
Autumn has a broad tendency to bring us indoors, so when I’m not cooking or baking, I tend to need to occupy my time by distracting the fact the weather no longer allows me to be outdoors which creative projects. DIY’s or renovation or fixing up home projects I’ve gotten started but the temptation of summer pushed them aside will now be picked up once again.
Are there certain recipes, hobbies, projects or crafts you love to pick up once Autumn rolls back around? This year’s my plan for DIY projects has been about clearing things out, making efficient room for what already exists and giving life to the old in ways that liven up my surroundings in the present.
Top Images Sources :: Scottish Sunset || Mustard Silk Ribbon Place Setting || Jewelry Styling || Terracotta Vases || Mustard Napkin || Woodgrain Stationery || Menu Card || Long Tablescape || Winter Mountain Sunset ||
What has been inspiring you this Autumn? Traditional, cozy feelings, seasonal travels or everything right outside your door?? Whatever it is, may this season of Autumn be a bountiful and warm one for you!
For more of what has been inspiring me this season, check out all my latest Pins…..
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