Autumn-Inspired Table Setting

Let's Check out Schotzy's Autumn Table!

Hosted by  Susan.

Again, I have not posted here in quite a while,  but now that I am finally getting my strength back from this quarantine season.. I am in better  form to  celebrate here at home.. I didnt have covid,  but  I did have several other things that were debilitating.  so it has taken me all summer to  get back into the swing of things!

And  Autumn is such a wonderful season to  enhance  the home with color and scents..  so here we go! 

I love to use my Enoch Wedgewood blue transferware with autumn colors.. 

Of course, I lean towards English

pastoral scenes. Then I  use assorted  salad plates that I love to collect!!

Shakespeare obviously loved autumn:

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang …

 I love English tapestries and Jacobean fabrics as seen below! 

 The fleur-di-lys napkin fold  in the glass below is Jacobean.

However, in the setting I have used assorted napkins to create the Fleur-di-lys fold on the 6 place settings. I think pairing patterns  adds  a lot of interest and  flavor to the setting.....  we eat with our eyes before we dine on the food!

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I realized I did not set the hollowware to the setting, but when I keep the setting up for a while, I rarely do use it. I, of Course, have to wash the settings  prior to using the table. 

I love the romantic glow that  autumn colors   create in the house.  So warm and comforting.  John Keats also wrote about Autumn:

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,

And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease,...

It is fun to  decorate with  swollen gourds, so rich in color and beautiful forms..  We can really appreciate the Creation of our. El Elyon, God of Heaven and Earth!

Christina Rosetti  penned this sonnet to Autumn!

  

Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not:
I am no summer friend, but wintry cold,
A silly sheep benighted from the fold,
A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot.
Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot,
Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold;
Lest you with me should shiver on the wold,
Athirst and hungering on a barren spot…

Oh, to me,  the barrenness of the days  to come  are  just another  

wondrous  landscape  from the  brush of the Master's hand!