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[AuntG]

Sunflowers are a great way to transition from summer to fall. I'll be sorting through my decor soon. Watching Valerie's fall shows will help me get into the seasonal change.

[DSD2]

Beautiful!

I especially love the green velvet pumpkins, the honey pot and the beautiful pillows, flowers and sunflowers.

[Nonametoday]

The last one is my favorite but I do like the brown bottles and the drying hydrangeas vignette.

[just bee]

A few that caught my eye...

The lushness of fall.

Clean and simple.

That bit of green...

I see bees...

The "green and cream" is relaxing.

And my eye keeps going back to the area above the stove...

The black and white with the yellow and metal... and chickens.

[lynnie61]

@Oznell   So many nice ideas.  I love the amber bottles, and the green honey pot.  I "found" a 3-tiered stand that was my great aunts when I moved to my childhood home.  I may pull it out and try to make a small vignette like the tiered stand showed with fall items.  Thanks for sharing and always posting so many beautiful homes.

I am also, not a fan of chickens and roosters.  (I should love them, my grandparents were farmers).  

I am SO ready for fall.  I love the cooler days and the beautiful colors!  

[Oznell]

@lynnie61 ,  those 3-tiered affairs are really fun.  Hope you do pull yours out.  Gives you three whole levels to decorate however way you choose, in a one compact space so you're not over-filling or possibly cluttering other areas, love that.

[SactoSue]

Oh, so fun to look at decor photos like these.  Of course, when you have spectacular kitchens and fireplaces and such, the decor sometimes seems very secondary. 

I do like the subtle uses of little white and green pumpkins.   Small velvet pumpkins are so nice to bring in subtle shades of pre-fall color and have a soft easy look.  I adore those darling green bee skeep pieces,

I find sunflowers really go a long way and a few are just enough in my house.  I do adore having them outside, however, and always regret not planting sunflower seed varieties in the spring.  Oh well,  I can hardly take care of what garden I have, anyway.  

Thank you, @Oznell  for putting together such a beautiful set of images to think of for this week.

[Lucky Charm]

This is such a timely thread @Oznell .  

Today I bought a bunch of sunflowers at a farm stand we pass every once in a while.  

It's one of those 'honor box' kind of places, we've stopped there before.  We had met the man wjp runs the farm and today I had the pleasure of meeting his wife, Kitty. 

Of all places, she was born in Holland! She was as beautiful and cheerful as a sunflower!  If you go, tell her Cookie sent you!

Tip she shared with me, once the sunflower starts to drop (droop) a bit, cut the stem completely off (sheer it flush to the base of the flower).  Put it in a bowl/shallow dish with water.  It will thrive another week 'smiling face up'.

[beach-mom]

@Oznell - Thank you for posting these lovely pictures! I drag summer out as long as I can, but. . .

1. I love sunflowers. They were in our garden. And everyone knows they're my "late summer theme." I have a lot of things friends have given me.

2. I love sage, and dark sage is the color of my sofa, loveseat, and light curtains in our family room. Your pictures have given me so many good ideas. I always pick up the darker colors in the room; I never thought about cream!

I just splurged on a mini sunflower bag last month The sunflowers seem to almost jump off the bag - they are so vibrant!  

[Pecky]

Sunflowers are my favorite flower.  I have white ones on my kitchen table that I just purchased from HG and the orange/red ones in my great room. I would remove the heavy blue drapes,not a fan of chickens, sheep, roosters and velvet anything.