The Week Ahead: Autumn Serenade

 

Here's a 'modern' kitchen for us to examine for the start of the week...

I am not at all sure of the placement of that curved counter there in the kitchen.  It seems odd somehow to me but then I noted those little fold up stools on the side and realized it was meant as a breakfast counter.  I think sitting on those stools would be pretty awkward, don't you?

The Week Behind: Lovely Welcome to Autumn

I've shared this pink kitchen before.  I think perhaps this is an all metal kitchen and each piece was separate standing.  Let's talk first about the fact that the top cabinets are white and the pink ones are all on the bottom.  Here's a modern day trend of two toned kitchens from back in the 1950's...Again, proving that there is nothing new under the sun.

Coffee Chat: Season Upon Season

Do come in and join me.  It's cool enough today to warrant a cup of hot coffee and there are warm Banana Chocolate Chip muffins to go with our hot drink.  Have a seat, won't you, and stay for a chat?  It shall be a totally random sort of chat, the way all good talks between friends so often are.  

I have been saying steadfastly for the past few years now that I am embracing all seasons and finding things to love in them all and I am...but my heart has remained just as steadfast in loving Autumn best of all and never more so than now when I am in what might well be determined to be the autumn years of my life.  

This Week In My Home: Autumn Beckons

I've chosen to make this photo ex-large and I do hope it doesn't play heck with your device parameters for the photo.  The reason I made it so large was so that we might best see the details in the kitchen.

First, let's talk about color.  I love the yellow.  It was not uncommon in days past for rooms to be almost monochromatic.  Here we've the relief of  a deep grey, white appliances and the patterned tile (more on that in a moment) with subtle touches of peach and pale green which do not compete with the yellow in brightness.  It's a very sophisticated color palette really.

The Week Behind: Enough and More

What do you all think about this kitchen?  My first question is always, "Where's the fridge?"  I didn't even note the date on this photo when I saved it.  I do realize that ice boxes often sat on back porches or in a separate entry way near the kitchen and this kitchen may well fall into that era.

Gathering Fragments: Organizing the Pantry

"Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through the home production and storage, but others as well." (President Ezra Taft Benson)

Saturday:  I didn't do much gathering today but I did pull the last two potatoes to use in our dinner, as well as the last two apples.  I roasted a chicken with onions, carrots, potato chunks and apple quarters.  Apple is really nice with chicken.  I just wish I'd had some cider to baste the bird with...And by the way, you could also roast sausages with the same vegetables and apples and it would be lovely.  Pork sausages, Chicken and Apple sausages, or Kielbasas.  All would be lovely together.

Worth Sharing This Week: Send Me Orchids and Pumpkin!

When I was a young and romantic pre-teen, I loved reading those junior romance novels, like Fifteen by Beverly Cleary and oh gracious, I can't think who all else.  There were loads of juvenile fiction authors I read back then.   But I was always curious about what an orchid looked like.  Every girl who ever went to prom or a Homecoming dance in those novels were given orchid corsages by their best beaux.  I was a full grown adult before I saw my first orchid.  I had always heard how difficult they were to grow.