simple solutions: just use pumpkins

 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....