My Cozy Corner

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

PRODUCE STAND

Hello everyone,

The taste of fall from my garden. I picked my grapes, some lavender and a few other goodies...

Welcome to my Produce Stand on the back porch.

The apples and pears came from a friend's ranch. And the tomatoes, grapes and lavender are from my garden. The green olives are from our olive tree.

I picked an artichoke bloom I forgot to pick when it was ready to eat a few weeks ago.

These are two favorite fruits I love grapes and pears. I wash the grapes and eat them chilled. The pears are delicious made into Rustic Pear Tart Go Here and I make a Pear Chutney that goes nicely with pork or add as a condiment to curry.

We have a few tomatoes to make cold Mexican Gazpacho soup.

I set my table with a vintage tablecloth and found an old wooden fruit box. The lavender is dry and ready to make wonderful items our Christmas bazaar in November.

I won this nice basket last Saturday at a convention I attended. It was a garden basket full of garden goodies. Now it's my apple basket.

I'm going to be baking some apple bread and old fashioned apple crisp that I've

have been baking for over 50 years.

Life is wonderful and I am so grateful for everything today.

This garden decor was one of the cute things in the garden basket I won.

A mosaic to pin

Thanks for visiting and please come back soon.
Joyously,
Betty

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Saturday, August 8, 2015

Cloche Love

Hello everyone,

Well, it's all about the weather in California. The hot weather and this week all the smoke from the forest fires causing smoky skies and bad breathing air. This week I was going to work in the garden and photograph my monthly garden journal, but I played in the house instead cleaning cupboards and counters.
I have fall fever...
I don't know if there is such a thing as fall fever, but I've got it.

I've had my little vignette on the sofa table for awhile and I going to change it up next week. But, before I put my bird away I wanted to share my cloche love with you.

We have owned our James Peter Cost lithograph for over 40 years. I purchased the art at his gallery in Carmel-by-the-sea. Sweetheart and I are sweet on our feathered friends.

My little rocker was a gift from my sweetheart. When I came home from the hospital with our first son I walked into our apartment and there it was, May 12th 1961. I used this little rocking chair to rock all my babies to sleep at night. Now my youngest baby is 45 years old. I made the little bird pillow with a iron on transfer and some drop cloth fabric.

The feather candlestick holders I found at Tuesday Morning in the spring. I also bought the candles at the same time. The candles are artificial battery operated. I don't use real candles anymore. I'm so afraid of forgetting a burning candle.

Cloche Love♥

A Mosaic to Pin

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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Plates for All Seasons

Hello everyone,

Summer is in full swing. Since the first of 2015 I have decorated my mantel with plates. Dinner plates, salad plates, dessert plates and decorative plates. I've found plates are just not for serving food.

I found these colorful plates at Barnes and Noble. The set of four salad plates were perfect for a Tea Time tablescape, but two plates would look great on my summer mantel. The plates reminded me of the mid-summer blooms in the garden.

The gentle watercolor painted flowers are soft flowing and romantic.

I added black candle holders to match the plate holders.

I found the wall hanger for my faux boxwood at the thrift store.

I was thinking I would the wall hanger on the front door this fall..

During the Spring months I places these adorable green, black and white dessert plates with black and white time on a square white plate for the background.

I enjoyed this mantel this spring. I used my square boxwood wreath with a burlap bow and boxwood in green vases. A cute bird to accent the time of spring. And to accent the birds on the dessert plates. Brass candle holders with glass hurricanes and green candles. This arrangement and color combination goes so well with our brick fireplace.

A little closer look

Well, we have come to the beginning of 2015. After I packed away the Christmas decorations I had my plan for the PLATES OF ALL SEASONS,

I started with my boxwood wreath and a red ribbon. I had a set of four valentine plates that I knew would look great with the cute valentine banner I made.

The felt heart banner was made from Christmas ornaments I found after Christmas on sale at Macy's...Red Cyclamen plants add to the texture of the mantel.

A mosaic to pin

Thanks for visiting My Cozy Corner.

Joyously,

Betty

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Sunday, August 2, 2015

Late Summer Color

Hello everyone,

Happy August to you all. Wow! This summer is flying by...

Remember in early June I posted about my Hydrangeas beautiful color and our extreme hot sun causing them stress. I covered them with an umbrella to protect them. Well the umbrella idea worked. They have grown and now they are turning green. To see the first post GO HERE

Beautiful pink with a purple cast of color.

The color has changed to a beautiful green. I think the bright colored umbrella has faded with the hot sun the past two months.

Causes of Green Hydrangea Blooms

There is a cause of green hydrangea blooms. It’s Mother Nature herself with a little help from the French gardeners who hybridized the original hydrangeas from China. You see, those colorful flowers aren’t petals at all. They’re sepals, the part of the flower that protects the flower bud. Why do hydrangeas bloom green? Because that’s the natural color of the sepals. As the sepals age, the pink, blue or white pigments overpower the green so colored hydrangea blossoms often fade to green over time.

Go Here for more information

The blooms are drying on the bush. And I will be cutting the blooms and putting them in a basket in my guest room.

I call this photo Hydrangea Love♥

I call this photo Angel Love♥

Thank goodness for my umbrella to protect these beautiful blooms. I look around my neighborhood at some pretty fried blooms.

A Mosaic to Pin

Thanks for visiting
Joyously,
Betty
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Sunday, July 26, 2015

Trip to the Coast

Hello everyone,

I'm back home from a getaway to the coast of Northern California. Sweetheart and I were married in the middle of summer and to celebrate our anniversary this year we wanted to find a cool and quaint place to visit. I think we found the perfect spot. The fabulous mansion above is The Carson House built in 1884-1885 To have a tour of the inside Go Here
Day 1

We drove around old town and over to Woodley Island Marina to have lunch and look at the fishing boats in the harbor. I absolutely love Light Houses and to photograph them is amazing. This is Table Bluff Light House . It's the same Light House in the bottom photo. After dinner we walked down to the dock in Old Town and saw the Light House from the other side of the bay. The sun was setting and the boat's reflection was glistening on the water. It was so beautiful to see.

And the sunset was fantastic...

Day 2

We were up early and drove about 15 miles to a beautiful 18 hole gold course. We had a nice breakfast at the course and Sweetheart hit a bucket of golf balls before we started our day. I don't golf but I'm a great ball watcher or spotter and I love riding in the golf cart.

The golf course was beautiful and I did catch some ducks in the pond relaxing as the golf balls would sail across the sky to the other side.

After our golf game we took a ride to Camel Back Rock

The sign tells the story How Camel Rock got its hump! LOL

Stopped to visit The Trinidad Head Light Built in 1871

A very interesting story about the Light House Go Here

Also a memorial for those lost at sea.

Day 3

We had some free time on Friday the day of our anniversary. The Avenue of the Giants in a 31 mile drive thru the most beautiful old growth Redwood Forest in California. I couldn't take photos as beautiful as the two I found on the website. Go Here

After our beautiful ride gazing at the Redwoods, we headed north to have our Anniversary Dinner. I was so excited to celebrate 55 years with the love of my life and also to have dinner with my sister-in-law (my flower girl in my wedding...she was 7 years old) and my brother-in-law. We had a fabulous dinner overlooking Moonstone Beach.

The sun was glowing as it set in the west.

And the glow was also in my heart to be healthy and happy on this glorious day.