EASTER AFTERGLOW AND SPRING BLOOMS

 

It has been a busy month here. With Easter coming early this year along with an early spring, our little garden was in need of attention! My tablescape for Easter was inspiration from our garden. As some of you know, daffodils are my favorites. Daffs have long bloomed out here but when I found these beauties at Trader Joe's I knew they would be the perfect blooms for a spring and Easter centerpiece.  

Petal Linen Placemats and napkins in Limoncello

from Arte Italica

Anthropologie Grace

Faye decorative dessert plates

I used a maidenhair fern in my center pot

As lovely as the weather has been with our early spring, it was suddenly hot! With temperatures in the eighties it was summer, or so I thought. Now we are back in the sixties, perfect weather for tending our garden.

Peggy Martin Climbing Rose

Our garden is beginning to fill in and grow and is such a joy to watch. With each passing summer we've been here our trees are taller, plants and flowers are spreading to cover the beds and our landscaping is finally complete.  

I hope you are enjoying a beautiful spring. Thanks so much for your visit.....

SUNDAY MORNING

Good Sunday Morning

Sunday morning is when I make our favorites for breakfast. Six days a week it is oatmeal with toppings and fruit. Today I am setting the table for two for breakfast. Jim loves eggs, so it will be his choice of over easy or scrambled. Bacon on Sundays, our special splurge. A bowl of fruit, cantaloupe today, fresh from the farmer's market.  Croissants and blueberry muffins are being served on the new piece, a MacKenzie Childs three tier sweet stand. I am a big fan of their "Barn Sale" and this was my big find this year. When it showed up on my porch Friday I couldn't wait to use it!

Mackenzie Childs Parchment Check three tier sweet stand

Muffins were in the oven while I took photos and didn't get photographed on the sweet stand 

Who doesn't love a hot fluffy

muffin!

Crown Linen Designs

Round black/white check placemats and napkins

MC Parchment Dinner plates

Anthropologie Faye Dessert plates

I love chartreuse, perfect I think for end of summer hot August days. The colors along with chartreuse comes in blue and white 

The matching mugs are perfect for sipping Bohemian Breakfast Black tea while breakfast is being prepared

Coffee with breakfast in another "Barn Sale" find

Jylin botanical spoons from Anthropologie keeping with the botanical tablescape theme

Piccadilly butter dish

 Thanks for joining me for breakfast. Do you have a day you make a special breakfast? If you do I would love to hear. I hope you will leave a comment, it's the only way I know you were here.