there are a million ideas for fall decorating floating around the internet right now,
but sometimes the BEST ideas are the simplest ones:
simple like sitting a small sugar pumpkin on top of every post on your fenceline.
the photo above is not staged.
i came across it last fall while still living in Washington state.
[of course when i see something like this, i have to jump out of the car and take a picture!
i am not daunted, even by the homeowner who is unloading bags of garden mulch from his truck in the driveway - i ask politely if i may take a photo of the fence.
he stares at me. i ask again. he nods, speechless.
it's a response i am used to. and i happily snap a few photos]
[sugar pumpkins are the ones that are heaped into a huge cardboard bin in front of every grocery store in the fall. they usually cost about $1.50 each.]
driving on down the street, i came across this setting - again, not staged:
i swear i did not touch those pumpkins - that is exactly how they were positioned when i drove by!
perhaps the homeowner placed them ever-so-precisely.
perhaps the smallest pumpkin rolled off of the top step, down into that oh-so-perfect location.
then again, maybe they were plonked down there to be arranged later....
is this neighborhood inhabited by a bunch of photo stylists, i wonder?
when you look at those elements, you can see how simple it is:
a container of grass and three pumpkins in two colors/two sizes.
the differences in size and color of the pumpkins keeps it interesting
the orange-y tone in the grass coordinates with the orangest pumpkin color
and all of it sitting on a gray background just makes the colors POP
[gray is a shade of blue - blue and orange are opposites - remember my last post?]
and honestly, the placement of them could not be more perfect.
oh, wait, it gets BETTER! just look at the house that those pumpkins were in front of:
the woman who lives here must have seven short roomates....